Posted on 04/07/2005 5:32:55 AM PDT by Kokojmudd
Illegal entrant taped holding 'caught' T-shirt By Michael Marizco ARIZONA DAILY STAR
PALOMINAS - Cochise County officials said they are investigating two Minuteman volunteers after an illegal entrant complained Wednesday to authorities that he was held against his will.
One of the men paid the illegal entrant $20 and gave him a T-shirt to hold up while he filmed the encounter. The T-shirt read: "Bryan Barton Caught an Illegal Alien and all I got was this T-shirt," said Carol Capas, spokeswoman for the Cochise County Sheriff's Department.
It's the first encounter where an illegal entrant has filed a complaint against Minuteman Project volunteers since the monthlong controversial protest started Friday. Volunteers have gathered in Southern Arizona to protest what they said is the federal government's inability to control the border.
Critics said the encounter is the first sign that the Minuteman Project is a "sham" meant to humiliate illegal entrants.
The incident started Wednesday afternoon when Barton, 24, and a second Minuteman volunteer encountered the illegal entrant on Arizona 92 near Palominas, Capas said.
Barton said he gave the man the T-shirt and $20 plus food and water. Then he filmed the man holding up the T-shirt.
The volunteers then called the Border Patrol, which sent agents to pick up the entrant. Once in custody, the entrant complained about being held by the volunteers.
"It was supposed to be funny," Barton said about the encounter.
Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever didn't think so.
"We have no time or patience for anyone attempting to turn this situation into a three-ring circus," he said.
The Cochise County Attorney's Office is also investigating the complaint.
Barton, who is running for Congress in San Diego on the Republican ticket, said he's not worried about charges being filed and that he never held the man against his will.
He said deputies seized the video for evidence. No arrests have been made in the incident.
"This shows what we've been saying all along," said Jennifer Allen, director of the Border Action Network.
"It was nothing but a media sham to mislead the public," she said. "Clearly they misrepresented the situation. They misrepresented themselves."
Minuteman Project organizers Chris Simcox and James Gilchrist could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
● Contact Michael Marizco at 573-4213 or mmarizco@azstarnet.com.
I even attended a William F. Buckley lecture in 1966, and if you were around then, you remember that Conservatism hadn't even earned the right to carry a capital letter at the time. Now we run the guv'mnt! ('ceptin in Florida where unreconstructed rebels have taken over and rule from the bench).
So you're openly supporting vote fraud?
Denver Post, particularly, indulged in 'bad journalism in service of liberalism'
BTW, he may have one the battle but he didn't win the war.
Uh skeetie, {fwweuut(whistle)), tancredo has not denied that he used illegal labor to put an overhead projector and terraced seating in his basement.
He was looking for the best price and the best quality of work, I ain't going to criticize him on that.
What I do criticize him on, is on his obvious hypocritical rehtoric.
I'm all for identifying liberal bias in reporting. Can you point out any factual errors in the article?
First, let me apologize for leaving the impression in post 72 that I consider muawiyah a bigot. In my haste in replying to Dead Corpse I thought he (Dead Corpse) was speaking of something odoso had written in 41.
I am sorry, muawiyah, for the carelessness in responding to the swarm of murderous thugs.
To the topic at hand:
Ododso wrote: "I've not called for murder. I never once mentioned the word murder - "
To which I replied: You twice mentioned that different individuals should be shot dead.
What do you call that?
Instead of reply he sent me a FReepmail titled 'Three Stooges' whatever that means.
So, odoso, if you are still around, hyperbole aside, what is shooting someone dead called where you live?
Don't need braindead's response which was that it was self-defense against an invader...which doesn't hold for those of us who disagree with odoso whom he says should also be shot, dead.
Course, braindead can call me a traitor, I guess.
I got that too. I guess I'm a little higher (lower) on his pecking order since I also got his Freepmail with the "F" word in it.
Now I don't know whether to be hurt or what...he signed my second FReepmail, xoxoxoxo without the italians.
Nope, Just that we should shoot them also ..Nuff said .Don't like my feelings ?? Tough !!
"Most California republicans don't impress me much, a lot of them seem sympathetic to the illegals"
Are you talking about politicians or voters? Remember Prop. 187!
This thread's about a different topic.
Win the war? Have you driven around El Paso and Houston lately?
Good - I hope he's kicked out. It's too bad he ever joined in the first place. But - where does an illegal get the nerve to complain about their 'rights'? Somebody must've put the illegal up to it. I would think anyone coming over here illegally would be scared and passive. Or have border crossings become so commonplace that illegals now think they have a 'right' to come here?
Shucks. I thought I was going to be his apple in the Garden of Eden.
LOL
You ready to give that up?
Hey, all you gotta' do is get them registered and the rest is history.
Do you, as your posts indicate, support vote fraud? It's a simple question.
Once it's in place somebody benefits. Around here it keeps a couple of Republicans on the school board and the County Board of Supervisors, and maybe even a state senator in the legislature.
So, the question is for you ~ do you want to give that up?
Besides, these guys own businesses. They hire Salvadoran parolees (temporary residents still here since the end of the Central American wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador and elsewhere).
They help solve our "problem" with our semi-legal immigrants!
Absolutely. I cannot criticize Democrats for their fraudulent voting practices and then support the same for Republicans.
"Stuff happens" but I refuse to condone it. The fact that you do not, let alone report it, is disturbing.
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