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> Protestors take on those who hire illegal immigrants
>
> By: KELLY BRUSCH - Staff Writer
>
> TEMECULA ---- A protest against residents who hire day laborers turned
> confrontational Saturday morning after a would-be employer was
> surrounded by pickets who were shouting and holding signs at a street
> corner near Wine Country.
>
> Protesters began arriving at Butterfield Stage and Rancho California
> roads around 8 a.m. and lined the sidewalks, walking up and down
> Butterfield Stage. Some shouted slogans as they passed small groups of
> hopeful laborers, grouped in twos and threes along stretches of the
> sidewalk and on the grass.
>
> The intersection is a place where laborers, some illegal immigrants,
> often meet early in the morning looking for work. A laborer said
> protesters meet regularly at the intersection.
>
> The rally, aimed at residents who hire the laborers, remained mostly
> peaceful until two trucks pulled off the road on Butterfield Stage and
> their drivers got out in search of workers.
>
> Men and women representing a variety of organizations, including CASA,
> or Citizens' Alliance for a Secure America, and the Minuteman Project,
> strode over to one man and surrounded him, shouting, "Arrest the
> employers."
>
> Steve Prime, there supporting the protest, snapped a photo of the man,
> who then attempted to take his camera and shoved him, according to
> Prime. Both sides shouted back and forth, a few obscenities were
> exchanged and the man got back into his car without further incident.
> The Riverside County Sheriff's Department was called, and a deputy
> spoke with some of the people involved.
>
> Robin Hvidston, a member of CASA who organized the event, insisted the
> group was not trying to make trouble or harass the laborers.
>
> "We always say (the protests) are peaceful. We target the employers,"
> she said. "If they didn't offer the work, the trade would dry up."
>
> Hvidston, along with another woman, earlier tried to cajole a laborer
> into posing for a photograph with them. Someone snapped a shot of the
> three of them. A few minutes later, they tried to get the man to pose
> again, and when he resisted, they began calling him chicken, and the
> Spanish word for chicken, pollo.
>
> Laborers who congregated on the sidewalk saw the protest not as
> peaceful, but "harassment."
>
> Rodrigo Ramirez, standing with two others, said the men are just trying
> to make extra money. He said they have other jobs they work during the
> week, and employers pay up to $22 an hour for his services on the
> weekends.
>
> "I just don't know why they're doing it," he said of the rallyers. "For
> what?"
>
> Earlier that morning, several protesters were walking south on
> Butterfield Stage behind a laborer. The man looked back and yelled, "I
> gotta work to eat."
>
> Freeman Sawyer, with the Murrieta-Temecula Republican Assembly, called
> the hiring of illegal immigrants "the new slavery."
>
> He said immigrants suffer poor working conditions and low wages and
> receive no benefits, yet the government does little to curb this
> practice.
>
> Murrieta resident Dottie Dalton, who often is referred to as the
> T-shirt lady because of the printed shirts she makes and wears, said
> she spent a month in Arizona, watching the border as part of the
> Minuteman Project earlier this year.
>
> She doesn't consider herself a vigilante, but what she calls a
> "vigil-Annie," and referred to the project as the country's largest
> neighborhood watch.
>
> "I'm 66," she said. "I won't get too many more chances to make
> history."+
>
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Folks pitching in where our worthless government fails. Bring back the
militia movement. Washington fails to protect it's citizens from crime and
disease brought by illegal aliens.

Hank
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