Anti-illegal immigration group wants San Diego highway sign

SAN DIEGO (Map, News) - Lawyers for an anti-illegal immigration group say California officials bowed to political pressure when they revoked the group's Adopt-a-Highway stretch near a Border Patrol checkpoint.

Attorneys for the San Diego Minutemen told a federal judge Friday that their Adopt-a-Highway sign should be put back on Interstate 5 in San Clemente, north of San Diego. The California Department of Transportation ordered its removal in January.

Lawyers for the state said authorities felt the sign posed a safety risk because it could attract vandals and demonstrators.

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10:42 PM MST on Mon., Feb. 11, 2008 re: "Minutemen lose adopted highway near Border Patrol checkpoint"

Examiner Reader said:
Thank-you for the minutemen.

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1:59 AM MST on Tue., Jan. 29, 2008 re: "Minutemen lose adopted highway near Border Patrol checkpoint"

Capt.Trips said:
They weren't 'forbidden' -- it was voluntary. I'm of the opinion that they weren't so much concerned with public safety as they were with the security of their own derrieres. Fifteen bags of trash? Not bad, but it's nothing compared to the improvement that came when the Minutemen got themselves off the road.

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11:08 PM MST on Mon., Jan. 28, 2008 re: "Minutemen lose adopted highway near Border Patrol checkpoint"

Examiner Reader said:
well... i guess this is war. An American group is forbidden to sponsor a freeway because it might get in the way of people illegaly entering the country. Mark my words... there will be a war over this eventually.

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