Border Patrol Checkpoints

Judicial Watch confirming Hunter's ISIS story is on par with having Bernie Madoff vet Enron's financial statements.

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The San Diego Klan members paid $10 to join and usually met on the second Wednesday of every month. Faithful participants included Fred Crandall, a prosperous paint store owner, E. D. Goodwin, a mechanic who worked in Gilmore's Bicycle and Toy Store, W. J. Simpson and his wife Myrtle, Earl S. Barr, and John S. Burbank. Actually, these cardholders were hard working, thrifty, middle class church-going individuals. Nevertheless, the Klan used the Bible and the old concept of manifest destiny to see themselves as superior and Mexicans as inferior and in need of control. "Keep in mind that some harmless members envisioned a gregarious Klan, ignoring its grim horrors to those it detested," stated the attorney Carey McWilliams.

San Diego Klan participants formed their own traditions. V. Wayne Kenaston, Jr., whose parents were members of the Klan, reminisced, "If my memory serves me correctly, my mother made me a miniature Klan outfit with a little hood...."11 A number of women joined the Klan and were strongly encouraged to participate so as "to propagate in or through such meetings, either directly or indirectly..." the Klan's message.12 The San Diego Klan affiliates saw themselves as humanitarians, similar to other Klans who established schools and hospitals. The testimony of Kenaston, Jr., revealed white Catholic voters, mostly from the Blessed Sacrament Church on 56th and El Cajon, supported the Klan's political committee. As Kenaston, Jr., stated, "I'm wondering if, in San Diego, there were actually Catholic Klan members of the Klan, or whether they were referring to the fact that Klan members might have voted for the people that the Catholics might have liked." The Klan did influence some religious groups. In parts of Southern California, "Many [Catholics and Protestants] who were suspected of being Klansmen at first denied their affiliation, but when confronted with their official Klan and number and date of entry, they could do nothing but admit membership." Some of them were members of Catholic War Veterans and the Knights of Columbus.

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Anti-Mexican Activities in the 1920s and 1930s

Kenaston, Jr., somewhat disingenuously, avowed that the Klan never intimidated any ethnic groups even as he admitted that their main zeal was in "chasing the wetbacks across the border." Most Klan activities were clandestine, aimed at keeping recently arrived Mexicans from participating in community politics. As McWilliams noted, "They opposed white-collar jobs for Mexicans, who at one time were merchants or professionals in war-torn Mexico, and demanded a policy to force them into manual labor." Luisa Moreno, a labor union leader, stated, "The California Fruit Growers Exchange, the tuna cannery industry that had its base in San Diego, and other local businesses enthusiastically supported this concept."

There are some testimonies as to Klan activities by their intended victims. Kenaston, Jr. remembered that years ago east of 55th Street and El Cajon Boulevard, past College Avenue, there were lemon orchards. Among these citrus orchards in suburban San Diego and in the rural areas, Mexicans were occasionally discovered dead, sometimes disfigured by torture. An expatriated soldier of the Mexican Revolution, Mercedes Acasan Garcia, reminisced that in San Diego, "any Mexican worker who challenged authority or appeared suspicious of one thing or another would forfeit his life." Garcia, who was a young maid for Mrs. Alice Victoria Hamilton, recounted, "At first the Mexican field hands were curious at the sight of these strange men on horses shrouded with snowy gowns and huge, spotless cardboard hoods over their faces. Others had white cone shaped hoods to add height and also disguise their faces. They had painted red crosses on them." The workmen believed that they were pious Catholics who were penitents and wanted alms.

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Easier and cheaper to intimidate the masses with armed roadside inspections, build a big fence from TJ to Texas, as if that's going to stop them, to give the public the impression they're on it.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.[2]

I watched 30 seconds of that. Some idget being 100% un co-operative with LEOS and you wonder why he is hassled?

Like correction officers and for profit prisons. If they decide to hassle you they can f*#k with you even if you have done nothing wrong.

A police state.

I would hope even Ron and Blue and particularly Toker Villan would agree. What happened to moving about freely in the USA, minding your own business, with out having to justify your status as a US citizen?

just answering politely that you are a US citizen ISNT trampling on my rights what so ever.

Now IF they would have drawn guns, told the guy to get out and face the ground THEN asked him if he was a US citizen- I would have been on his side.

I hate to say it but I bet many of the Border Patrol people are ex military, Iraq / Afganistan vets where they feel they should have the power over the people.

For whatever it's worth, I crossed into Canada on foot on the PCT at Manning Park and never saw a single LEO from either side of the border. Crossing back into the US, I handed my PCT exempt crossing form to the US border officer who asked "What in the hell am I supposed to do with this?" Thanks, tool.