California businessman says he is getting death threats for hosting family of immigrants

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Denver Channel

California businessman says he is getting death threats for hosting family of immigrants
By: Rachel Bianco, Maria Arcega-Dunn
Updated: 37 mins ago

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego businessman says he is getting death threats for fostering a family of undocumented immigrants from Guatemala.

Mark Lane owns Poppa's Fresh Fish Company in Logan Heights, California. He told sister-station KGTV he does not have a position on the immigration crisis but he felt compelled to take a stand against the city of Murrieta when his 5-year-old son asked him why the buses carrying undocumented women and children were blocked.

"He asked me why the people were mad at the buses and I was like, it's 2014 … why do I have to explain to my 5-year-old why people are mad at the buses when really they're mad at the people inside of the buses 'cause they're brown," said Lane.

Lane heard through Border Angels that a family needed someone to host them. The mother, her teenage sons and her 23-year-old daughter fled Guatemala after gangs threatened to kill her sons for not joining their gang. The 23-year-old daughter was raped multiple times during their journey to the United States. The family says they had all of their belongings stolen from them while riding on top of a train through Mexico.


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[atreides1]

1. What is wrong with these people

What's the difference between the anti-immigrant protesters of Murrieta California and a Southern lynch mob...the people in Murrieta haven't lynched anyone, YET!!!

[Borchkins]

2. Good for him--learning from a five year old.

Where do I sign up to host a family?
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[ProgressiveJarhead]

4. Contact Here

http://borderangels.org

We are going to do what we can. We are about 8 miles from TJ.

[broadcaster75201]

3. Conservatism MUST be totally destroyed if we re to survive n/t

nt

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

11. Are we are witnessing the first signs and break up of our country?

It seems to be happening on so many levels.

[Skittles]

5. no doubt from flag-waving "Christians"

[Joanie Baloney]

6. An earlier thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025338809

[flamingdem]

7. What a great guy

and what incredible cowards threatening him.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

12. San Diego has a history of extreme right wing groups.

[alp227]

8. Anyone who made such threats forfeit the right to identify as "pro life" or "pro family",

those fancy, magical right wing labels. like the episode of Family Guy where Lois ran for mayor and had crowds cheering when she went "nine...ELEVEN!"

Edit: Add original source via San Diego's Scripps station that was then duplicated across Scripps TV station websites: http://www.10news.com/news/local-businessman-says-he-is-getting-death-threats-for-hosting-family-of-immigrants-08042014

[sinkingfeeling]

9. What a wonderful father to set such an example for his son.

[LTX]

10. Isn't it a fairly standard, mocking trope of the far-right that "If you're so sympathetic to these

immigrants, why don't you invite them to live with you?" Well, here's someone who did. But, not surprisingly, it doesn't seem to change their sentiments any.