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Minutemen event expected to draw a counterprotest


Group to picket worker pickup site
By Adam Klawonn
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
February 4, 2006

VISTA – Migrant workers say they won't run and human rights activists say they will counterprotest this morning when the group San Diego Minutemen pickets a downtown intersection where day laborers wait for work.

The local group, which supports but is not affiliated with the national Minuteman Project Inc., wants to use Vista as its first try at stopping employers countywide from hiring illegal immigrants.

At least four human rights groups plan to denounce the project and prevent the workers from being harassed or hurt.

Dozens of workers just want a job.

“We are here because of a huge necessity,â€