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Monday, October 07, 2019

Immigration splits small Maryland town, leading to dueling protests

FREDERICK — On a wet Sunday afternoon, two distinctly different scenes played out on the brick-paved sidewalks of this historic county seat — both tinged, and in some moments, dominated, by the rhetoric of Washington politics.

Locals joined with visitors from the nation’s capital and its closer-in suburbs to stage dueling rallies for and against Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins (R), who was recently sued for allegedly racially profiling a Latina grandmother and criticized for canceling a public meeting on his department’s partnership with federal immigration agents — a program known as 287(g).

About 200 opponents of the sheriff’s actions gathered with homemade pupusas, a mariachi band and a Democratic congressman who offered aphorisms from the Founding Fathers. A few blocks away, a similar number of Jenkins supporters hoisted American flags of every size and offered booming chants of “USA! USA! USA!”

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wrong headline: Illegal Immigration. We are not in NYC, do not give4 in to their PC.

Patriot said...

Pre Civil War ....

its coming Democrats

Anonymous said...

MD Democrats has made MD a sanctuary State and now they are seeing the rest of us are against it because our homes and lives have to deal with them while these worthless Democrat Politians don't live any where near them and have security and gates.

TheRealRay said...

Has anyone ever seen a homeless illegal alien ?

Anonymous said...

Hey 1:41 why would we since we the taxpayer are paying their bills.

Anonymous said...

It's not "immigration" splitting the town or the state or the country. It's Democrats doing everything in their power to split this country and it's working. Like has been mentioned many times before a Civil War is looming in this country and nothing can be done to prevent it. Democrats won't change and there are way too many of them now. A Civil War is needed before the healing can begin.