Anti-immigration convoy cancels Texas event over 'death threats'

Guardian UK ^ | August 3, 2014 | By Rory Carroll

[Oldeconomybuyer]

A convoy of anti-immigration activists touring the border with Mexico to defend the US from “invasion” has cancelled an event in Texas because of alleged death threats.

The 30-vehicle convoy aborted a planned rally in El Paso on Sunday over safety concerns, said the convoy organiser, Eric Odom.

“We had to cancel that because of death threats against our crew and convoy,” he told the Guardian, speaking by phone from a New Mexico highway. “We’re not into that. We are a very peaceful convoy and we want to show that the border is very dangerous and open.”

Odom said the threats were made via social media. He declined to give details but said the warnings had been saved with screen grabs.

Critics say such rhetoric is xenophobic and overlooks the fact that the total number of people illegally crossing the border has fallen in recent years, and that many of the unaccompanied children are fleeing violence.

Miguel Juarez, an El Paso community activist, created a Facebook page to mobilise support against the El Paso rally before it was cancelled.

“I just think it’s important for people to have the information that these individuals are coming to express their message of hate,” he told the El Paso Times. “I think for them to come to a city with a large population of Mexican Americans, it’s an outrage.”

[CivilWarBrewing]

F’ing cowards.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

(from the article):"Miguel Juarez, an El Paso community activist, created a Facebook page to mobilise support against the El Paso rally before it was cancelled.
“I just think it’s important for people to have the information that these individuals are coming to express their message of hate,”
he told the El Paso Times. “I think for them to come to a city with a large population of Mexican Americans, it’s an outrage.”

TRANSLATION : We already OWN this town !!

[Don Corleone]

Sure as hell the “Just Us “ department would not cover their six!

[FlingWingFlyer]

“Remember the Alamo?”

[trisham]

"..only Spartan women give birth to real men"

Thank God for the real men who founded this country,
and for the real men who continue to sustain it

Please join the 300 by donating $100

[montag813]

Eric Odom is a drama queen and fundraising shyster. Figures he would chicken out for publicity.

[montag813]

Give me a break. You didn’t see JimRob back down.

[John 3_19-21]

[blueplum]

It should only be an 'outrage' to the legal Americans of Mexican descent insofar as the guatemalans, elsalvadorians, hondurans and 144 other nations identified so far are coming for their jobs and their tax dollars.

"The convoy started on Friday in Murrieta, the California town where protesters last month blocked buses filled with undocumented children and women from Central America. It hopes to inspire other citizen border patrols with the “spirit of Murrieta”."

Spirit of Murrieta! Cowboy up!!

[Michael.SF.]

Was the threat from Holder?

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Travis McGee]

They are not playing for tiddly winks.

[RedMDer]

These are all children?

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[jsanders2001]

No idiot. We’re tired of illegal immigrants coming over here to rape our economy, destroy the quality of our life and sucking up all the freebies without contributing a dime.

[trisham]

Thanks. I’m a bit done in. :)

[RetiredTexasVet]

The 30-vehicle convoy aborted a planned rally in El Paso on Sunday over safety concerns, said the convoy organiser, Eric Odom.

Which really means there were 5 vehicles and they couldn’t find enough suckers to pay their fare.

[Jane Long]

Looks like the EPPD had to escort them out of El Paso, after the threats were made. Here’s more, on their Twitter feed....

https://twitter.com/borderconvoy