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Activist threatens 'siege' of Bush ranch
El Universal Online ^ | January 26, 2005 | Wire services

Posted on 01/26/2005 1:59:11 PM PST by KiloLima

Mexicans who toiled on U.S. farms between 1942 and 1964 under the Bracero program are ready to "besiege" U.S. President George W. Bush's ranch in Texas to press their demands for money owed them in their retirement, an activist who fought with Nicaragua's Sandinista rebels said Tuesday.

José Puente León told EFE that the former braceros are determined to march on Bush's ranch just as they did last year on the ranch owned by President Vicente Fox in Guanajuato.

(Excerpt) Read more at eluniversal.com.mx ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aliens; braceros; fox; illegalimmigration; mexifornia; sandinistas
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1 posted on 01/26/2005 1:59:11 PM PST by KiloLima
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To: KiloLima

Memo to the protesters... He's not home.


2 posted on 01/26/2005 2:00:17 PM PST by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("Oh no, not Hans Brix!")
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To: KiloLima
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BRING.....IT.....ON!!!!!!!!!
3 posted on 01/26/2005 2:00:26 PM PST by KMC1
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To: KiloLima

Yeah, this'll have an effect.


4 posted on 01/26/2005 2:00:46 PM PST by socal_parrot (Boxer sucks!)
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To: KiloLima

Mexicans steal from other Mexicans, and it's our fault?


5 posted on 01/26/2005 2:01:19 PM PST by Right Wing Professor (Evolve or die!)
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To: KiloLima

Shoot 'em.


6 posted on 01/26/2005 2:01:45 PM PST by PeterFinn (The only thing I need to know about Islam is how to destroy it.)
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To: KiloLima

Wonder if they know that they don't actually grow or raise anything on Bush's ranch?


7 posted on 01/26/2005 2:01:54 PM PST by jbwbubba
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To: Right Wing Professor

wait till they run into the secret service


8 posted on 01/26/2005 2:02:21 PM PST by CT CONSERVATIVE (NOT FAIR-That's Dan's Story to Break!!!)
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To: KiloLima
Mexicans who toiled on U.S. farms between 1942 and 1964 under the Bracero program are ready to "besiege" U.S. President George W. Bush's ranch in Texas to press their demands for money owed them in their retirement,

Lock and Load. This could be considered armed insurrection.

9 posted on 01/26/2005 2:02:35 PM PST by Centurion2000 (Nations do not survive by setting examples for others. Nations survive by making examples of others)
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To: Right Wing Professor

Actually it looks like they were working for Americans.


11 posted on 01/26/2005 2:02:46 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: jbwbubba

Don't you know that it is ALWAYS the US's fault???


12 posted on 01/26/2005 2:04:42 PM PST by jrestrepo
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To: KMC1

They better think hard about this one. Shoot to kill trespassers is not a joke.


13 posted on 01/26/2005 2:04:46 PM PST by marty60
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To: KiloLima

Looks like they will get their money in the form of free room and board in prison.


14 posted on 01/26/2005 2:05:25 PM PST by SengirV
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To: Centurion2000

This is TEXAS. Let them try it.


15 posted on 01/26/2005 2:05:46 PM PST by marty60
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To: KiloLima

We ought to tell the ex-braceros that we will get on with the investigation as to what happened to the deposits to the Banco de Mexico... as soon as we finish with the UN Oil-For-Food investigation.


16 posted on 01/26/2005 2:06:08 PM PST by Frohickey
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To: KiloLima

They should call my ex-Senator Max Cleland for some advise on storming the ranch before they head out.


17 posted on 01/26/2005 2:06:42 PM PST by Republican Red (DU: ''Reality sucks. That's the problem. We want another reality.'')
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To: KiloLima

Hope they don't show up at Ted Nugent's place by mistake.


18 posted on 01/26/2005 2:07:02 PM PST by get'emall (The second mouse gets the cheese.)
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To: KiloLima

Skeet targets, definitely a job no U.S. worker wants. Bush's immigration plan in action!!


19 posted on 01/26/2005 2:07:09 PM PST by FlipWilson
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To: KiloLima

Well, maybe it's time this problem was in the President's back yard instead of the rest of us. He may find that some "family values" do stop at the border.

As for what we owe the Mexicans...Pftttt! Show me a Mexican who owns a chunk of land here --- not his perceived long dead ancestors-- and I'll stand by him to get his land back.


20 posted on 01/26/2005 2:07:20 PM PST by JustAnotherSavage ("We are all sinners. But jerks revel in their sins." PJ O'Rourke)
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