 The fence that Muriel Built |
Protesters Light Up the Border Again
The Los Angeles Times ; Los Angeles, Calif.
Aug 24, 1990
PATRICK McDONNELL;
A U.S. proposal to build a ditch died amid a firestorm of criticism
last year, and federal officials say there are no plans for an
excavation project. The Mexican government and immigrant advocates
condemn the plan as another Berlin Wall. However, U.S. authorities
are contemplating building less controversial vehicular barriers.
The Light Up protest-Thursday's was the eighth since the movement began late last year-have garnered considersable support among some U.S.citizens who say they resent the constant tide of illegal immigrants from south of the border.d)
After a hiatus of almost three months, the group called "Light Up the Border" again brought its pro-enforcement message to the U.S-Mexico border Thursday.
This time, according to police estimates, 300 protesters in more than 100 vehicles beamed their headlights southward from Otay Mesa, the flat grassland east of the port of entry at San Ysidro.
Organizers said they wanted to dramatize the tattered state
of the border fence in the Otay Mesa area, where the U.S. Border
Patrol says hundreds of vehicles transporting illegal immigrants
and
sometimes drugs enter the United States each month.
"There's hardly any fence here at all," said Muriel Watson, founder of the protest movement.
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