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To: dragnet2

REGULAR cab not like the link I put up, I assume...it was just on KFI. Regular bed, chrome tubular step bumpers (running boards)...


4,128 posted on 10/26/2007 7:13:04 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Mother of the Bride here, treat me with respect for once, will ya? ;))
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October 26, 2007
Turning back at roadblocks

Posted @ 6:45 PM

As people who were evacuated from their homes return, the roadblocks around the perimeter of evacuated areas are frightening some people from returning home.

Some undocumented immigrants, or legal-resident families who have a relative in the country illegally, are choosing to turn around and go elsewhere until the roadblocks — some staffed by Border Patrol agents assisting other law enforcement — are gone.

Christian Ramirez of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker-affiliated human rights group assisting immigrant families, said the norm so far for acceptable papers has been that any sort of document with a person’s name and address.

However, he said, seeing a uniform is all it takes for some.

“Folks, regardless of that, as soon as they see the Border Patrol, they are going to make a U-turn and go back,” he said.

Ramirez said these situations have been cropping up as larger numbers of people return home from emergency shelters.

Throughout the week, Border Patrol agents have been assisting other law enforcement agencies with evacuations, traffic and perimeter control, and other duties.

“They are helping out,” said agent Matthew Johnson, adding that the agency has not put up any tactical checkpoints to search for people here illegally.


4,129 posted on 10/26/2007 7:21:41 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: Brad's Gramma
Thanks for that.

Can't imagine some poor guy having a truck that happens to resemble that one right now. There must be 5,000 white F150s running around that region.

4,131 posted on 10/26/2007 7:41:10 PM PDT by dragnet2
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