Posted on 03/19/2016 11:02:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) -
Trump protesters were blocking vehicles leading into Fountain Hills in advance of Donald Trump’s campaign stop Saturday morning.
Maricopa County sheriff's deputies were seen directing tow trucks to start hauling the violators away.
Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers pulled up to assist deputies at Shea Boulevard and State Route 87, where protestors, standing shoulder-to-shoulder, maneuvered their vehicles to block traffic.
Earlier in the morning, protesters were lining up in Phoenix in advance of Donald Trump’s appearance at a campaign event at the Phoenix Convention Center.
Trump was appearing with Sean Hannity at 9 a.m. for a town hall meeting.
Protesters were staging in Tonatierra Park and planned to march to the event in a peaceful protest.
They were carrying a message they want Trump to hear.
“We don’t want you here in Arizona,” said protester Salvador Reza. “We don’t want your hate.”
Protesters will march several blocks to where Trump will speak.
“We want to make sure that people know that not everyone is in agreement with Donald Trump,” Reza said. “There’s more than 50 percent of people who don’t want him.”
Trump is bringing his get-tough message on illegal immigration to Ground Zero.
“He’s already talking about building walls, not bridges. In the modern era, that’s not acceptable,” Reza said.
[RELATED: Trump rally to be held in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's hometown]
Trump supporters were out in full force, including Tim Tashio.
"“I want him to undo all the things the previous administration has forced upon us,’’ Tashio said.
Another supporter said Trump is a leader.
"Something we sorely need in this country now," Frank Tortorici said. "He says what he needs to say."
Following the downtown event, Trump will hold a rally Saturday at 11 a.m. at a park in Fountain Hills, the hometown of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The lawman is a Trump ally known for immigration crackdowns that made him politically popular, but they were eventually barred by the courts.
Hundreds of immigrant rights advocates who have opposed the sheriff's tactics plan to line up outside the Trump event. They will be joined by members of a union that represents hotel workers and military veterans who say Trump is using hateful speech toward Muslims.
Francisca Porchas, organizing director for the Puente Movement, a civil-rights group in Phoenix, said her group sees Trump's views on immigration as being the same as the sheriff's.
"We want the Trump rise -- the Trump effect -- to end," Porchas said.
[RELATED: Arizona offers model for how Trump might win the White House]
In an interview, Arpaio said he isn't concerned about violence erupting at the park but that his officers are able to handle such situations. The town where the event is being held doesn't have its own police department, and Arpaio's office provides police protection there.
"If they violate the law, they will go to the tents," Arpaio said, referring to his practice of jailing people outdoors in surplus military tents. "I will have my vans out there to transport people who violate the law."
$150 to get each car back. See you at the impound lot.
How dare they?
They should charge at least 10 times as much and I am not a Trump supporter
Soros will pay the bill.
And we have no idea how all your windows got smashed.
This is what you do when you don’t have the votes.
If you are winning, you don’t need to protest.
I wonder how Putin would handle these vermin.
SWEET !
my wish came true!
NOTHING will elect Trump quicker than these idiots blocking the roads!
WOOT!
GO TRUMP!
Anyone who doubts the existence of evil need only look at the anti-Trump protestors. These people have no respect for freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, or any other basic rights of others. They are willing to win “by any means necessary”. They are pure evil.
When faced with evil, decent people have to make a simple choice. I hope that choice will lead to a permanent solution to the problem of thugs obstructing free Americans.
Weren’t the vehicles used in the commission of a crime? That should up the fine a bit.
The Puente Movement? A splinter group of La Raza no doubt.
Protesting, Inc.
The NYC protest reads like a Chamber of Protest event flyer.
Check it out:
The protest is back by several activism groups, including ICE-FREE NYC, International Women’s Day Coalition, Millions March NYC, Queer DEtainee Empowerment Project, Revolutionaries Against Gendered Oppression Everywhere [RAGE], among others.
I think I will get a tax-exempt 501(c) and call group Mabelkitty Madness March!
Wait 'til mom asks where the family car is.....
run the weirdos over
That’s why I think they are covering this all day.
Middle America is watching this same stuff over and over since Obama got in to office and they are fed up.
Full disclosure, this may end up putting Trump over the top in Utah.
And Trump is getting the free TV coverage.
Blocking highways and waving mexican flags
Yeah that’s a sure way to get Arizona folks to vote against Trump ( Sarc)
Trump should announce that the wall gets a foot higher for every hour the highways are blocked
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