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Van Bomber Targeted The Whitehouse To Defend Illegal Alien
Posted on Monday, January 24 @ 15:47:08 EST
Topic: illegal immigration alien arrests
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 'I don't know how he thought this could help' -- daughter mystified by man's threat against White House
Friday, January 21, 2005
By Barton Deiters
The Grand Rapids Press Topics: Terrorism, Terrorist, illegal immigrants, security, crime
CEDAR SPRINGS -- Aleata Timmers was touched that her dad went to Washington, D.C., to argue her fiance's immigration status, but now both the men in her life are behind bars, leaving hers in shambles.
Lowell Timmers, 54, remains in federal prison after he parked his old Ford van a block from the White House on Tuesday and threatened to blow it up if his daughter's fiance, Manuel Regalado, was not freed from a Detroit-area jail where he is being held on immigration violations and facing deportation, according to the U.S. Secret Service.
"Now, everyone knows about Manuel's case, but it's not really helping," said Aleata Timmers during a hastily arranged press conference Thursday at Jose's Restaurant in Cedar Springs. "I'm very angry. I don't know how he thought this could help Manuel's case."
With her 1-year-old daughter, Emma, grinning and babbling on her lap, 26-year-old Timmers said she faces having to care for her baby and her distraught mother, Gloria Timmers, now that both men are imprisoned.
Timmers said she had expected to travel to Regalado's native Guatemala if he is deported for failing to meet immigration service requirements after he entered the United States illegally in 1999. She said the two missed an immigration service appointment because their car broke down, and they got lost in Detroit while driving a rental car. He was arrested two weeks ago when they returned to Detroit.
She described her father as a man of high morals, who volunteered to fight in Vietnam as a young man and became a pacifist who opposed the war in Iraq and the policies of President Bush.
Timmers said she had not talked to her father since his arrest. A disheveled Lowell Timmers appeared in federal court Wednesday, where a judge denied him bail. At a detention hearing Tuesday, a judge will determine if Timmers should be released or face charges.
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