No new permits have been issued since last June for California’s popular Adopt-A-Highway volunteer program, where businesses and organizations pick up garbage along state highways in exchange for a small roadside sign recognizing their efforts.
The San Diego Minutemen were approved for a litter pickup permit in November 2007, then randomly (also cluelessly) assigned to clean a two-mile stretch of northbound Interstate 5 passing a major Border Patrol checkpoint a few miles from the Tijuana gateway.
Within days after the “San Diego Minutemen” roadside sign went up, Caltrans officials were bombarded by complaints from immigrant rights groups and Latino legislators insisting the Minutemen were racist vigilantes who must be expelled from Adopt-A-Highway.
The Minutemen countered they are just law-abiding citizens devoted to upholding enforcement of U.S. immigration laws and border security.
Under pressure from Sacramento higher-ups, Caltrans soon removed the recognition sign and offered to reassign the Minutemen to clean up a 'less controversial' San Diego highway site...
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