Border Patrol to Muzzle Citizens?
Constitutional Rights at Stake
KVOA-TV -- Tucson, Az. -- November 5
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Left: Glenn Spencer at the border fence. Right: Mario Escalante threatens to rip messages off fence.
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Cochise County -- There is a section of the border fence where thousands of American flags flap in the wind outside of Sierra Vista.
But there's also a small hand written note attached to each of the flags and that causing quite a flap with a long time Southern Arizona activist and the U.S Border Patrol.
The U.S. Border Patrol says the messages need to be removed.
"We have over 10,000 petitions signed by American citizens saying enforce the law," says Glenn Spencer of the American Border Patrol, a border watch group. "They were sent in individually, mailed to us, by our supporters," he said.
He says his supporters are petitioning the government because they don't like what's happening on the border. They want to see more fence along the border and a double fence. [...]
Still, Spencer thinks this is the right place for folks to express their opinions.
"I don't think they have the right to tell us, we can't post a message, and put American flags up here, asking our government to protect us."
U.S. Border Patrol tells News 4 the flags can fly but the messages must come down.
Border Patrol has not given Spencer a deadline to remove the tags so News 4 will stay on this and let you know when or if they come down, but Border Patrol says they'll take them down if Spencer doesn't.
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