butterbean
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 Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:25 am Post subject: Minutemen protest super highway from Mexico |
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Four members of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a border-watch group opposed to illegal immigration, picketed a state transportation conference in Des Moines Thursday, claiming it promoted a superhighway linking the U.S. with Mexico and Canada.
“This is going to take down our borders on the north and on the south,” said Minuteman Ron Duncan of Missouri Valley, who was among the protesters.
The picketers, carrying signs which read, “Stop the Superhighway” and “Say No to Illegal Aliens,” were set up outside the “Moving Iowa Forward” conference, sponsored by the Iowa Department of Transportation and Iowa Department of Economic Development at the downtown Embassy Suites Hotel.
The meeting’s purpose was a discussion of how Iowa’s trucking and railroad industries can be improved to strengthen Iowa’s economy, said Peggy Baer, director of the DOT’s Rail Division.
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http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070118/NEWS/70118018/1001/SPORTS10 |
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