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    T-Shirt Incident Reported as Prank

    Surprise, surprise. No violence. And no surprise that the ACLU protects scofflaws' civil rights and ignores their trampling of ours. Their tax exempt status of all chapters should be revoked collectively and immediately.

    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur H. Rotstein, AP, AZCentral, Apr 7
    Border volunteers may have been pulling prank on immigrant
    TUCSON - Authorities determined Thursday three volunteers involved in a civilian project to watch the border and report illegal crossers may have pulled a prank on an illegal immigrant but did not hold him against his will. The Mexican man had told sheriff's deputies he was detained and forced to pose for a picture holding a T-shirt with a mocking slogan. A review of a 15-minute videotape provided by Bryan Barton, one of the three volunteers, showed the T-shirt the man was holding read: "Bryan Barton caught an illegal alien and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." Barton was wearing an identical shirt.

    "The county attorney's office reviewed all available evidence, that indicates that there was no forcible detention, therefore the case is not substantiated, and no charges are pending," said Carol Capas, a spokeswoman for the Cochise County Sheriff's Department. The sheriff's department, Mexican Consul Miguel Escobar and the U.S. Border Patrol also agreed the 26-year-old man was not detained, said Capas and Border Patrol spokeswoman Andrea Zortman. The man, who was not identified, apparently did not initially tell a Border Patrol agent he had been detained, but did so when interviewed later by sheriff's deputies, Capas said. The man alleged when he tried to get away, the volunteers ran in front of him and would not let him go by.

    The volunteers involved in Wednesday's incident identified themselves as members of the Minuteman Project - a monthlong effort that has people from around the country spread out along a stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border to report undocumented migrants and smugglers. Law enforcement officials have said they fear the project will lead to vigilante violence. Mexico's foreign relations department also pledged in the days leading up to the civilian operation to pursue all legal and diplomatic means to stop the volunteers and ensure they do not violate the rights of Mexican citizens. Wednesday's incident was the first reporting any possible detention, though volunteers earlier assisted an immigrant in distress.

    "The Minuteman project has created a powder-keg situation with the potential to go beyond harassment and false imprisonment to real violence," said Eleanor Eisenberg, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, which has legal observers keeping an eye on Minuteman volunteers. T-Shirt Prank
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    "Bryan Barton caught an illegal alien and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
    OMG.. that is too funny!

    Damn good thing they had a video.. good thinking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DonQuixote
    "Bryan Barton caught an illegal alien and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
    OMG.. that is too funny!

    Damn good thing they had a video.. good thinking.
    Funny? I don't know .. it was a stupid thing to do with all the media coverage. It was most certainly a lapse in judgment and the illegal obviously lied about being detained.

    Not good all around. Reminds me of a similar story. Sounds like a frameup in both cases .. see this link.

    http://safety.websoaring.com/index.php? ... 67&catid=5
    "This country has lost control of its borders. And no country can sustain that kind of position." .... Ronald Reagan

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    nah.. what he did was stupid. But the t-shirt was funny.

    On the other hand.. what SHOULd be out there is not a bunch of amatuers. but professionals.. too bad amatuers ARE having to do the job because the govt refuses to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DonQuixote
    nah.. what he did was stupid. But the t-shirt was funny.

    On the other hand.. what SHOULd be out there is not a bunch of amatuers. but professionals.. too bad amatuers ARE having to do the job because the govt refuses to.
    You just want one of those t-shirts, don't you?

    Read about the Border Patrol agents doing jobs I hope other Border Patrol agents won't do. Rather an irony here.

    http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-1508.html
    "This country has lost control of its borders. And no country can sustain that kind of position." .... Ronald Reagan

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