Friday, July 11, 2014

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Says No More Alien Buses in SoCal — For Now...

From Tatiana Sanchez, at the San Bernardino Desert Sun, "Border officials: No more immigrant buses through Southern California":
Following a string of contentious protests and escalating tensions in Southern California, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Thursday it will no longer send busloads of undocumented immigrants to San Diego or El Centro.

The immigrants — mainly families and unaccompanied children from Central America — were being bused to facilities in San Diego and El Centro every three days to alleviate overwhelmed detention facilities in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.

"It looks like with the almost 1,000 (undocumented immigrants) processed between El Centro and San Diego, for now (it) helps," said Lombardo Amaya, union president of the El Centro chapter of the National Border Patrol Council in a message to The Desert Sun. "This does not mean that we will not continue to receive more loads in the future."
They'll send more, and don't believe authorities when they claim the Murrieta protests had nothing to do with this decision.

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