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1st February 2007, 22:46
Source: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/2...9-1m30camp.html (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070130-9999-1m30camp.html)
Vandals strike migrant encampments
RANCHO PENASQUITOS – Dozens of migrant workers returned to their canyon encampments Saturday afternoon to find their belongings slashed to pieces, police said yesterday.
Several small encampments throughout Rancho Peñasquitos were targeted in a string of attacks, said attorney Claudia Smith of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation.
“It was truly stunning to see and pick your way through maybe 100 items, and every one of them is slashed. Jackets right down the middle,” said Smith, who notified police after reports of the attacks began to pour in Saturday. “This was so vicious and so deliberate.”
Authorities say some of the encampments emerged in the area after migrants were ordered to clear out of nearby McGonigle Canyon in November.
The workers, many of whom are undocumented, had squatted on private land in McGonigle Canyon off and on for the past 20 years.
Landowners and police were working on a long-term plan to close the encampments last year, but the effort was hastened in November when residents, joined by supporters of the Minuteman Project, loudly protested the camps.
The racist right-wing is getting more and more violent and outright racist. In this case they've gone and destroyed the squatter camp that several undocumented poor immigrants were residing in. Not only is it insane that people are forced to live in such poverty because of our capitalist system, its sickening that the right-wing can pull of these kind of attacks and get away with it. They're also trying to shut down day laborer centers where people go for employment. Obviously the police dont give a fuck and wont do anything about it. Any California comrades planning on organizing around this some more?
Vandals strike migrant encampments
RANCHO PENASQUITOS – Dozens of migrant workers returned to their canyon encampments Saturday afternoon to find their belongings slashed to pieces, police said yesterday.
Several small encampments throughout Rancho Peñasquitos were targeted in a string of attacks, said attorney Claudia Smith of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation.
“It was truly stunning to see and pick your way through maybe 100 items, and every one of them is slashed. Jackets right down the middle,” said Smith, who notified police after reports of the attacks began to pour in Saturday. “This was so vicious and so deliberate.”
Authorities say some of the encampments emerged in the area after migrants were ordered to clear out of nearby McGonigle Canyon in November.
The workers, many of whom are undocumented, had squatted on private land in McGonigle Canyon off and on for the past 20 years.
Landowners and police were working on a long-term plan to close the encampments last year, but the effort was hastened in November when residents, joined by supporters of the Minuteman Project, loudly protested the camps.
The racist right-wing is getting more and more violent and outright racist. In this case they've gone and destroyed the squatter camp that several undocumented poor immigrants were residing in. Not only is it insane that people are forced to live in such poverty because of our capitalist system, its sickening that the right-wing can pull of these kind of attacks and get away with it. They're also trying to shut down day laborer centers where people go for employment. Obviously the police dont give a fuck and wont do anything about it. Any California comrades planning on organizing around this some more?