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Posted on 04/20/2004 6:28:57 PM PDT by SandRat
CORONADO NATIONAL MEMORIAL - The same day that the National Park Service director visited this border memorial nearly 100 illegal immigrants were apprehended within hours after Fran Mainella left.
According to U.S. Border Patrol and memorial officials two National Park Service rangers and a Border Patrol agent were patrolling near the vehicle barrier along the border when they came upon a large group of illegal immigrants.
Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman Andy Adame said it was around 8:30 p.m. Friday when the agent and rangers came upon the group causing the illegal immigrants to scatter.
An agency helicopter was called in to help locate the people and by 10 p.m. 98 had been apprehended, he said Monday.
There were children with the group, but none of them were unaccompanied for they were part of families who attempted to enter the United States illegally, Adame said.
Thane Weigand, the memorial's supervisory ranger, said his rangers reported that there were 17 women and 10 children in the group who were apprehended, and 71 were men.
The original size of the group was reported to be nearly 200, he added.
The illegal immigrants had only made it a couple of hundred yards into the United States when they were challenged by the joint patrolling National Park Service and Border Patrol law enforcement officers, Weigand said Monday.
The area where the illegal immigrants crossed on foot was where the Border Road and East Forest Lane intersect, he said.
Many times illegal immigrants will walk two miles from a ranch house in Mexico, that is almost directly south of the memorial, Weigand said. The memorial has three miles of land that goes along the border.
During her tour of the memorial, Mainella had said "It is becoming more or a challenge to discourage undocumented aliens and drug smugglers."
Coronado National Memorial Superintendent Dale Thompson told her that most of the illegal activities on the National Park Service land happens at night.
But, he added the staff at the memorial has a good working relationship with the U.S. Border Patrol by working together to stem the flow of illegal activities.
DemoRAT!
There's some real basic psychology/history at work here. If I understand the article, this was an inordinate amount of women and children. So, if we have what , 90% young men coming in, disinfranchised, can't speak the language, leaving EVERYTHING they have known,etc., etc. and NO/few women in their peer group. This is a recipe for disaster on every level. It's the making of gangs and gangs grow up to be terrorists.
These guys?
Police Find Dozens Of Suspected Illegal Immigrants In L.A. Home
Associated Press, Apr. 21, 2004
LOS ANGELES - Police found about 75 suspected illegal immigrants Tuesday night crammed in a home [in Watts] that officers believe was part of a smuggling operation. The immigrants were Hispanic but their countries of origin were still unclear, Schwartzer said.
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