Thread: Rancho Cucamunga, Ca. 6 illegals kidnapped

I guess someone picked up 6 day laborer's in Rancho Cucamunga, Ca. drove the to another location.Where several other citizens met up with driver. Tied them all up, drove them to Tiajuana, Mexico, and kicked them out of truck. How funny is that?

AWESOME, let's see, how long would it take to do that to 12 Million (really about 30 million) illegal criminals!!

Too funny!! I guess these guys decided to take matters in their own
hands and get the deportation movement under way!

Never, they are like pigeons. Always find there way back. The only difference is pigeons only carry 32 known diseases.

Authorities investigating report of kidnappings of laborers from Inland area

10:00 PM PDT on Wednesday, May 16, 2007

By SHARON McNARY
The Press-Enterprise

The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department is investigating a report that day laborers were kidnapped from the Inland area and left in Mexico, spokesman Jim Beebee said.

Advocates for the reopening of a hiring center in Rancho Cucamonga, at a news conference at City Hall on Wednesday, used the alleged kidnappings plus the May 5 death of a laborer in a car crash to amplify their demand for a safer pickup site.

The report, filed by the sister of one of the alleged kidnapping victims, says three laborers got into a Suburban SUV at a popular day labor pickup place at Arrow Route and Grove Avenue in Rancho Cucamonga.

They were taken to Ontario, where abductors cuffed their hands using plastic ties and loaded them into another Suburban van already occupied by three other laborers from another pickup point, the report said. The men were driven across the U.S.-Mexico border and left in Tijuana, the report said.

One laborer called his sister in Upland, who called police. The county sheriff, who has jurisdiction over Rancho Cucamonga, received the report Wednesday but had not yet questioned the sister or alleged victim, Beebee said. As of Wednesday, neither the sister nor relatives of other victims had contacted the legal protection office of the Mexican consulate, said Consul Carlos I. Giralt Cabrales.

Consular officials had heard secondhand reports of the kidnapping but could not confirm a crime occurred, he said. Reach Sharon McNary at 951-368-9458 or smcnary@PE.com

Day-laborer kidnapping report a hoax
Man who claimed he was taken in handcuffs to Mexico admits that he lied

Mark Petix, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 05/31/2007 12:00:00 AM PDT


RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A day laborer who claimed he and two other men were kidnapped from a street corner and taken in handcuffs to Tijuana has admitted he made the story up.
When San Bernardino County sheriff's investigators talked to Jose Feliz Gutierrez by phone, he said the kidnapping story he told to his sister was a lie.

"Jose stated he had left on his own accord," said Detective Jesse Venegas in a statement released Wednesday. "The entire event was a fabrication.

"Jose stated that he was scared to stand at the corner and look for work because of recent events such as the tragic accident that took the life of a fellow day laborer."

Jose Fernando Pedraza was killed May 5 when a car lost control and crashed into him at a spot where laborers gather at Grove Avenue and Arrow Route.

The kidnapping claim added fuel to an already fiery debate over day laborers and immigration that led to strong demands from people on both sides of the immigration issue.

Two immigration rights groups called for an investigation after Gutierrez's sister said her brother had called her from Mexico and said he had been kidnapped.

On May 15, Pablo Alvarado, director of the National Day Labor Center
in Los Angeles, called it a pressing criminal matter.
"This is something I intend to follow to the end," he said then.

Emotions ran high the next day when members of the Minuteman Project, who have been rallying at the labor site, told the Rancho Cucamonga City Council the city should cite motorists who pick up workers.

One woman aligned with the Minuteman group angrily approached the dais without permission.

The next day, Councilman Rex Gutierrez expressed his disdain with the group.

"Last night, we saw the true face of the Minutemen, which is spiteful and hateful."

Minuteman national rally spokesman Raymond Herrera said the group had serious doubts about the kidnapping claim from the start.

He said the group believed the story was a lie.

"The Minuteman group knew that from the start," he said. "It just didn't add up."

The news that the kidnapping story was a lie is regrettable, said Jose Calderon, professor of sociology and Chicano studies at Pitzer College.

He is also president of the Latina and Latino Roundtable, which joined the National Day Labor Center in calling for an investigation.

He calls the kidnapping tale an unfortunate distraction from the real issues, but said there had to be an investigation.

"We have to be responsible to the community," he said, "and when such reports are made we can't hold back."

He said some good has come out of this. He believes laborers are more willing to write down the license plate numbers of cars picking up workers to further protect their safety.

"So we have to be very vigilant," he said.

Venegas said no other alleged kidnapping victims have come forward.

"Investigators were able to determine Jose (Gutierrez) had been under psychiatric counseling and medication while in Mexico," he said.

Staff writer Mark Petix can be reached by e-mail at mark.petix@dailybulletin.com, or by phone at (909) 483-9355.

http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_6025551

Oh my gosh!! An illegal lying about something that never really happened?? Where do these people get off on lying to authorities?? I am shocked!!
(note sarcasm in effect!!)

Well, let's see, if only 30,000,000 of us (10% of our population) took even ONE illegal back to Mexico, we could do it!

I think it's going to come to that, what with the citizens patrolling their own borders! Soon, we'll have to deport them ourselves, because our government will not do what the people want.

Very funny, as long as no one was hurt - that would not be good for either "side".