Calif. Mayor: We Didn't Mean To Turn Buses With Migrant Families Away

[MohRokTah]

Calif. Mayor: We Didn't Mean To Turn Buses With Migrant Families Away

Caitlin MacNeal – July 6, 2014, 10:11 AM EDT

The mayor of Murietta, Calif., where protests forced Border Patrol to reroute buses of migrant families and children to a San Diego processing center, on Sunday defended his town's response to the overwhelming protests.

Mayor Alan Long distanced himself from the protests, explaining that the majority of protesters came from out of town and that police were not prepared for the volume of demonstrators.

"The world showed up on our doorstep," he said on CNN's "State of the Union."

Long said that the police were not equipped to deal with the protesters, and they were not able to bring in back-up before Border Patrol rerouted the buses. He said the plan the entire time was to "provide safety for everyone."

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I'm calling this mayor out for the LIAR he is!

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The face-off came one day after Mayor Alan Long urged residents to protest the federal government’s decision to move the recent immigrants who had arrived in the country illegally -- and have overwhelmed Texas border facilities -- to the Border Patrol station here.

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[SamKnause]

1. Indeed

he is a LIAR !!!

K&R

I hope the people who terrorized these innocent children are proud of themselves.

[DustyJoe]

2. Don't get it

I have lived in NM since the mid 50's.
This state has been a hispanic majority state for decades.
This state is not like a 3rd world country ie: disease, war, pestilence, economy.
NM is not a rich state like NY, but harbors some of the sharpest minds in the country ie:
Los Alamos, Sandia Labs.
NM does not have any more leanings for civil strife than say, Nebraska regarding race.

Of course there is a gang, drug problem as there is in every state
but, it's no more racial than it is cultural. There are brown gangs, black gangs, white gangs.

Why do some communities think adding more of a minority even to the point of
the minority actually being a majority as being a bad thing ?
If anything NM should display that it can be done, has been done and does not result in
racial discord, violence, crime or discrimination.

Just confusing sometimes.

[randys1]

3. Not just a liar but a god damn liar, the cops were in on it as he was...all F I L T H

I would love to kick them all out of the country and replace them with those immigrants

[muntrv]

4. Murietta should galvanize Latinos the way Selma galvanized African Americans.

[MohRokTah]

7. Agreed. eom

[DBoon]

5. Is obstructing Federal agents a crime?

If so, maybe someone suggested that he back off.

I *do* doubt his sincerity - this looks like CYA to me

[rickford66]

6. You just did !

Borrowed comment from Lewis Black.