Activists demand US border patrol end immigration raids
For the third time this year, immigration activists today staged a protest outside the US Border Patrol headquarters in Riverside. KPCC’S Steven Cuevas says the activists claim agents are unfairly targeting suspected illegal immigrants.
Steven Cuevas: Last month, Border Patrol agents inspected a Riverside Transit bus. The Border Patrol says the agents were chasing a suspect. They didn’t find the man they were looking for, but they did arrest five passengers &ndash all of them suspected illegal immigrants.
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Emilio Amaya: We noticed an increase in border patrol raids, time and time again, violations of human rights, violations of civil rights.
Cuevas: Emilio Amaya is with the Justice for Immigrants Coalition. He claims says the raid on a public bus is part of a larger pattern.
Amaya: We know this office, the office of Border Patrol, set up a quota system that allows them to go after any Latino. We demand a stop to these types of practices!
Cuevas: Some agents from the Riverside Border Patrol office have accused a commander of penalizing them if they don’t make at least 150 arrests a month. The agency denies the allegations.
Raymond Herrera: They claim that they’re being violated, persecuted in the streets. But I’ll have you know in America, we have the rule of law.
Cuevas: Anti-illegal immigration activists like Raymond Herrera of the Minuteman Project welcome any increased enforcement.
Herrera: I think everyone can look out their front door and see we don’t have a melting pot anymore. We have “Hispania” out there. And these people are rude, contentious and vile. They’re racist and the American people have had enough.
Cuevas: Immigration activists are calling for a federal investigation of the Riverside Border Patrol station.
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4 months, 2 weeks ago
I think they should uphold the rule of law and govern by the rules set forth by the United States Constitution, as they swore they would with their oaths of office.
Back in the sixties the government came into the schools and brainwashed us with the idea we needed to control the population because it was rising so fast. They said the roads would become crowded and we would run out of things like water.
They unleashed abortions, birth control pills, and other forms of Family Planning.
To allow the country to be over run with the criminals in businesses illegal labor while the criminals in the government aid and abet the invasion is a travesty against mankind.
They have seen to it our children were killed to control the population at the same time allowing the world to export their population problems here.
What about our sacrifices, many made against our will?
P.S. We still haven't recovered from the last time the criminals in business were allowed to bring in their slaves.
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Hey Herrera,
Did you ever wonder where the money for things like the subversion of the world's immigration laws may come from?
It seems to me as long as we allow people to print up fiat money there will be no place in the world where freedom can flourish.
If the Globalist oppose your efforts, paid for with real hard earned money, all they have to do is fire up the presses and shovel the money to any group that will oppose you.
Not only that but it seems they do it in such a way that the money to achieve THEIR goals is borrowed from them. Then we pay interest to a group outside of our country, like the Federal Reserve, on the creation and borrowing of OUR OWN money.
IN ESSENCE THEY BEAT US WITH OUR OWN STICK!
Keep up the good work.
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The bleeding heart liberals and rino Republicans have allowed our country to be invaded by cheap labor and parishners for the catholic church and illegal voters for the democrat party It is time we stopped it and take the country back. By bullets or ballots their choice.
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Just who the hell do these immigration activists think they are to DEMAND that ICE stop the raids? That is their job, for God's sake. We need more raids and a lot more deportations to get the illegal aliens out of this Country.
California has what, 3 million illegal aliens there? The State is $25 billion in debt? It costs $19 billion a year to keep the illegal aliens? How about California get a State Illegal Immigration Law there, like Oklahoma, Arizona, Missouri, Mississippi, Georgia and a number of other States. Get rid of the illegal aliens. You save $19 billion! Now you are $6 billion in debt. Can the Legislators handle that?
For God's sake, California, WAKE UP! Get rid of the illegal aliens and you get rid of all the problems that go with them. Give ICE a break.
4 months, 2 weeks ago
are you kidding me??? the illegals and their cohorts protest the border patrol doing their job??????? Round EM UP! and DEPORT EM ALL! the politics of this are astounding! Mexico doesnt want them back because they contribute to much money via mail! Mexico's second highest income is from illegals sending money home! google it! do you understand how really HUGE that is?? how many of them MUST be here illegally to make that happen?? 12 million? HA! more like 40 million?? we are being invaded, without one shot being fired! does anybody have a CLUE?? whos job it is to protect and defend the United States?? to ABIDE by the CONSTITUTION???? what does it mean? to break the law? why all the infighting? they broke the LAW! period! google "operation w*tback" Eisenhower had this very same problem. he quietly and EFFECTIVLY took care of it! why can we not do the same??? they walked, rode, swam over here. they can do the same going home taking their anchor babies with them! and then, if they want. they can GET IN LINE. like all the rest of the "LAW ABIDING " people that do it the RIGHT WAY!!!
4 months, 2 weeks ago
"Emilio Amaya: We noticed an increase in border patrol raids, time and time again, violations of human rights, violations of civil rights. "
The Border Patrol is doing the job they are being paid to do by their boss! They seek out those guilty of civil wrongs, specifically overstaying visas or stealing across our borders. These are the lawbreaking illegal alien anarchists. Until a secure double fence is built from sea to shining sea, the Border Patrol will be there to prevent the invasion of our country by gypsies, tramps and thieves.
4 months, 2 weeks ago
With 10 - 14 million Americans unemployed, why does anyone want to keep catering to people here illegally???? Many of those jobs Americans would do.
Makes absolutely NO SENSE.
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The U.S. Constitution protects EVERYONE, undocumented or not, from unlawful search and seizure, unlawful detention or arrest when there is no probable cause, and profiling only on the basis of race. It seems to me that the coalition is only asking for the Border Patrol to FOLLOW the US Constitution, which it is bound by as a federal agency.
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Obama needs to address the issue on these illegals quit b s n and get them out and the somalies need to get the hell out to
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Let'se see: 10 - 14 million Americans out of work. Teens can't find summer or part-time employment, no matter if they are black or white.
Round-em-up and move em out.
It has gotten to the point of ridiculous. Illegals have no rights..those are granted for citizens or legals.