Posted on 01/28/2008 9:37:29 PM PST by NormsRevenge
An anti-illegal immigration group's adopted stretch of highway near a Border Patrol checkpoint is being orphaned.
The California Department of Transportation said the San Diego Minutemen's participation in an Adopt-A-Highway stretch of Interstate 5 poses "a significant safety risk."
"The risk is in the potential for disruption to the operation of the state highway as well as public safety concerns for the traveling public and volunteers in the program," Caltrans district director Pedro Orso-Delgado said Monday. He did not elaborate.
The Minutemen will get another stretch on State Route 52 in San Diego - far from the Border Patrol checkpoint - but even that may prove temporary. Caltrans said it was reconsidering whether the group was eligible for any piece of highway.
"We have received information during the past couple weeks that warrants a closer look at the San Diego Minutemen relative to the eligibility criteria for this program," Orso-Delgado said. "The department will pursue this review in an expeditious fashion."
Caltrans did not elaborate on the review and a spokesman did not respond to a phone call Monday night, but its statement said groups that advocate violence, discrimination or illegal activities cannot participate in the program.
San Diego Minutemen founder Jeff Schwilk did not immediately respond to a phone message Monday night.
In November, Caltrans granted a permit for the Minutemen to tend to trash on a two-mile northbound stretch, north of San Diego, near a checkpoint where Border Patrol agents stop motorists and search for illegal immigrants hiding in cars. Adopt-A-Highway signs were emblazoned with the group's name.
Immigration advocates welcomed Caltrans' decision.
"We said from the get-go that those signs were going down," said Enrique Morones, who heads Border Angels, a group that provides water for people who cross the border illegally in remote areas. "Civility prevails."
The Minutemen boasted on its Web site that it removed 15 bags of trash from the roadside on Jan. 17.
The minutemen have not advocated violence, exhibited discrimination or conducted any illegal activities.
It sure is nice to know Caltrans is so conerned that it couldn't be bothered with the truth.
Now those who front for illegal criminal activity can trump the rights of U.S. Citizens who have done nothing wrong.
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>>Caltrans did not elaborate on the review and a spokesman did not respond to a phone call Monday night, but its statement said groups that advocate violence, discrimination or illegal activities cannot participate in the program.<<
Ok, good point. That means the “Border Angels” are not eligible to adopt a hiway. But what does that have to do with the minute men?
Is it time yet?
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So in the meantime cal trans will allow, anchor babies and Mexican mafia to work their turf? Ever seen the graffiti on California Highways? If you call and complain ( 1-949-724-2000 ) they will say “we cant stop it, its the highway patrol’s job”, and if you call the patrol they say they are too busy handing out tickets to the middle class, just call cal trans to send workers out to clean it up.
It’s a racket they got going, wouldn’t be surprised if they are paying the graffiti to go on, so they can collect taxes to take it off, being that they are now sending people home who would clean it for free!
Not yet, I need to purchase first.
Just wait until Caltrans gets busted for hiring illegals...oh wait, it’ll never happen. *slaps self*
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... for coyotes and their human cargo.
I have loaners.
A poster on San Diego indy media threatened to vandalize the I5 sign.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/12/18471945.php
This is another example of open border goons shutting down free speech by border security activists by threatening disruption.
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If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
People are really ignorant when it comes to the Minutemen effort.
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So now they’ll give it to some sorority at SDSU and have all of those hung over coeds cleaning the side of the highway. Way to increase safety.
The way things are going, you can expect them to give it to the illegals themselves. They’ll be doing jobs Americans won’t or more accurately aren’t allowed to do any longer.
The way things are going, you can expect them to give it to the illegals themselves. Theyll be doing jobs Americans wont or more accurately arent allowed to do any longer
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Sounds like that other ‘solution’ to the problem.
Build a Walmart the length of the border, let the workers come from the Mexican side and the shoppers from the American side.
Neither would have the need to go any further...
Well that is a novel idea. If you could incorporate free healthcare, free education and government handouts, plus special interest groups to support the workers and their families, and throw in U.S. Citizenship to boot, you might be on to something.
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