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Protest of immigrant arrests set I Inland News I PE.com I Southern California News I New... Page 2 of 2 Amaya and other activists have charged the Border Patrol randomly questions Latinos, whether they are acting suspiciously or not. The bus was traveling through a heavily Latino neighborhood, he said. The Border Patrol denies accusations of racial profiling. Three days after the Rubidoux operation, agents arrested several people at an informal day-labor site in Rancho Cucamonga. A video shot by a volunteer with the San Bernardino service center shows two Border Patrol agents in street clothes. Foster said the agents appeared to be deliberately dressed like day laborers. One wore blue jeans, a tan shirt and a baseball cap. The other wore an untucked tan shirt and dark casual pants. Amarillas said agents do not pose as day laborers. But he said they have long dressed in civilian clothing to survey an area without being detected, just as officers in other law-enforcement agencies regularly wear street clothes in investigations. "You make an initial observation and based upon those observations, you determine whether to question people or not," he said. Victorville resident Raymond Herrera, national rally spokesman for the Minuteman Project, an anti-illegal- immigration group, said activists protesting the Border Patrol are trying to undermine immigration-law enforcement. "The real American Mexicans like Raymond Herrera want to see these buses boarded more than anyone else he said. "The real Americans are probably sitting at home in their glory saying, 'Finally, the law is being enforced and criminals are being taken off the street.' " Today's rally is the third protest this year against the Riverside station and its patrol agent in charge, Ramon Chavez, who is the subject of a federal investigation over whether he punished agents for not meeting arrest quotas. Agents in the Riverside office have made the allegations, but the chief patrol agent of the El Centro sector said he believes Chavez will be exonerated. Lombardo Amaya, president of the union local that represents the agents, is calling for a congressional investigation into Chavez's actions. Foster said activists today will ask for a Department of Homeland Security probe into the Riverside station. Herrera praised Chavez as a model Border Patrol agent and called for a congressional investigation into Lombardo Amaya. Reach David Olson at 951-368-9462 or fl j PE. corn http://www.pe.comllocalnewslinlandlstoriesIPE News_Local_S raids02.38e2509.html 7/13/2009