Right-wing activists have blocked a caravan of buses carrying undocumented immigrants to a detention center in California. The migrants had been flown in to San Diego from an overcrowded detention center in Texas. But anti-immigrant activists stood in the buses’ path as they tried to bring the migrants to the Southern California Border Patrol station in Murrieta.

Cynthia Daum: “To me, Obama uses them as pawns for votes, and I do not agree with that. I do not. I feel that he is using — he is doing this on purpose. He wants to flood our country with illegal immigrants, not just Hispanics. He’s also letting Muslims come across the border. They are finding Qur’ans on the ground. He’s not closing our borders for a reason, and those borders need to be closed.”

The buses were rerouted to a different federal facility. In a show of solidarity with the detained migrants, the Mexican-American singer Lupillo Rivera took part in a counter-rally against the anti-immigrant protest.

Lupillo Rivera: “Closing the borders is bad, because the Latinos are not the only illegal people. The Chinese, the Americans, the Africans, the Canadians, the Europeans, there are all sorts of illegal people. There aren’t any legal people here in the United States; we are all illegal. The only legal people are the Native Americans, because this is their country, and foreigners came here to steal it from them.”