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MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) — Rumors had swirled among anti-immigration activists near a U.S. Border Patrol station in Southern California that the agency would try again to bus in some of the immigrants who have flooded across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Instead, they got dueling anti- and pro-immigration rallies Friday.
The crowd of 200 outside the station in Murrieta waved signs and sometimes shouted at each other. One banner read: "Proud LEGAL American. It doesn't work any other way." Another countered: "Against illegal immigration? Great! Go back to Europe!"
Law enforcement officers separated the two sides and contained them on one approach to the station, leaving open an approach from the opposite direction.
It was not certain, however, that any buses would arrive on Friday. Because of security concerns, federal authorities have said they will not publicize immigrant transfers among border patrol facilities. By late afternoon many demonstrators were leaving.
Six people were arrested, five for interfering with police who were investigating a fight and one for disorderly conduct, police said. One of the five was a woman who jumped on an officer's back, but police did not give details on the actions of the rest.
Earlier this week, the city became the latest flashpoint in the intensifying immigration debate when a crowd of protesters waving American flags blocked buses carrying women and children who were flown from overwhelmed Texas facilities.
Federal authorities had hoped to process them at the station in Murrieta, about 55 miles north of downtown San Diego.
"This is a way of making our voices heard," said Steve Prime, a resident of nearby Lake Elsinore. "The government's main job is to secure our borders and protect us — and they're doing neither."
Immigration supporters said the immigrants need to be treated as humans and that migrating to survive is not a crime.
"We're celebrating the 4th of July and what a melting pot America is," said Raquel Alvarado, a high school history teacher and Murrieta resident who chalked up the fear of migrants in the city of roughly 106,000 to discrimination.
"They don't want to have their kids share the same classroom," she said.
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Every one of those "for" should take home a couple of these kids and be personally responsible for their food, education and healthcare. And "no" I do not want these kids sitting next to my kids until (1) they have a complete health check up and are free of lice, scabies and any other kind of communicable disease (2) they speak ENGLISH. Why should the education of 30 or more other kids be stretched any further than it already is! The difference between those on the Pro and those on the Anti immigration stance is that those "FOR" have no solutions how to handle the cost, health implications and abuses inherant in illegal immigration (i.e., how many of those boys older than 12 are already entrenched drug gang members whose trip to the U.S. were instigated by the drug gangs from Central America? How about the very real reality of the thousands of kids already in foster programs in the U.S. What is going to happen when there is not enough money to be sure the kids already here are not being mistreated? Who is going to raise a poster for them, that they are surely to suffer from the onslaught of more kids into the system. Those of us against anti-immigration want to do it responsibly, taking into consideration the legalities, the future consequences of thousands more using the argument "Don't separate families" because their "anchor" kids will be in the U.S. without them, and the certain abuses by evil opportunists (drug gangs). What if we take the children under 12 (because they are kids!) but with a law that is passed, ENFORCED and widely publicised in foreign countries that are sending their kids that (1) if the children stay in the U.S. they can never leave the country, even for vacation (be on watch lists at the border-leave you must stay gone); (2) the parents of these children who commited the CRIME of abandoning their children will never EVER be allowed to immigrate to the U.S., and (3) be given a provision resident status where they are NEVER allowed to vote nor get public assistance after the age of 21 until MediCare (since they are arriving and immediately taking from the pot they nor their parents put anything into). This way we are not getting thousands of future welfare recipients who refuse to support themselves and they have the added incentive of HAVING to be productive members of society. But of course, how racist, mean and selfish I am to even suggest these things! Signed, a very proud AMERICAN naturalized citizen born in Mexico
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