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Showdown in Murrieta for Reuters

I spent all of Tuesday watching people cheer, chant U.S.A. and wave American flags.

I wasn't covering the World Cup.

I was in Murrieta, California, where demonstrators stopped a bus carrying undocumented migrants, many of them children, from entering the Murrieta Border Patrol Facility, where they were scheduled to be processed.

It was a hot and heated afternoon that involved a lot of high tempers and pushing and shoving. After the demonstrators blocked the road, the buses retreated and took the migrants to other facilities in San Diego. Here are a few from the shoot:

Temecula resident Zorina Bennett pickets against the possible arrivals of undocumented migrants who may be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol Station in Murrieta, California July 1, 2014. Some 140 undocumented immigrants, many of them women with children, will be flown from Texas to California and processed through a San Diego-area U.S. Border Patrol station as federal officials deal with a crush of Central American migrants at the border, a local mayor said on Monday.  REUTERS/Sam Hodgson  (UNITED STATES) 

Law enforcement attempt to control demonstrators picketing both for and against the arrival of undocumented migrants who were scheduled to be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol Station in Murrieta, California July 1, 2014. Some 140 undocumented immigrants, many of them women with children, will be flown from Texas to California and processed through a San Diego-area U.S. Border Patrol station as federal officials deal with a crush of Central American migrants at the border, a local mayor said on Monday.  REUTERS/Sam Hodgson  (UNITED STATES) 

Demonstrators picketing against the arrival of undocumented migrants who were scheduled to be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol Station block the buses carrying the migrants in Murrieta, California July 1, 2014. Some 140 undocumented immigrants, many of them women with children, will be flown from Texas to California and processed through a San Diego-area U.S. Border Patrol station as federal officials deal with a crush of Central American migrants at the border, a local mayor said on Monday.  REUTERS/Sam Hodgson  (UNITED STATES) 

Demonstrators picketing against the arrival of undocumented migrants who were scheduled to be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol Station block the buses carrying the migrants in Murrieta, California July 1, 2014. Some 140 undocumented immigrants, many of them women with children, will be flown from Texas to California and processed through a San Diego-area U.S. Border Patrol station as federal officials deal with a crush of Central American migrants at the border, a local mayor said on Monday.  REUTERS/Sam Hodgson  (UNITED STATES) 

Border Patrol agents watch as demonstrators picket against the possible arrivals of undocumented migrants who may be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol Station in Murrieta, California July 1, 2014. Some 140 undocumented immigrants, many of them women with children, will be flown from Texas to California and processed through a San Diego-area U.S. Border Patrol station as federal officials deal with a crush of Central American migrants at the border, a local mayor said on Monday.  REUTERS/Sam Hodgson  (UNITED STATES) 

Demonstrators picketing against the arrival of undocumented migrants who were scheduled to be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol Station block the buses carrying the migrants in Murrieta, California July 1, 2014. Some 140 undocumented immigrants, many of them women with children, will be flown from Texas to California and processed through a San Diego-area U.S. Border Patrol station as federal officials deal with a crush of Central American migrants at the border, a local mayor said on Monday.  REUTERS/Sam Hodgson  (UNITED STATES) 

Demonstrators picketing both for and against the arrival of undocumented migrants who were scheduled to be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol Station shout at each other in the street in Murrieta, California July 1, 2014. Some 140 undocumented immigrants, many of them women with children, will be flown from Texas to California and processed through a San Diego-area U.S. Border Patrol station as federal officials deal with a crush of Central American migrants at the border, a local mayor said on Monday.  REUTERS/Sam Hodgson  (UNITED STATES) 

Demonstrators picket against the possible arrivals of undocumented migrants who may be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol Station in Murrieta, California July 1, 2014. Some 140 undocumented immigrants, many of them women with children, will be flown from Texas to California and processed through a San Diego-area U.S. Border Patrol station as federal officials deal with a crush of Central American migrants at the border, a local mayor said on Monday.  REUTERS/Sam Hodgson  (UNITED STATES) 

Demonstrators picketing against the arrival of undocumented migrants who were scheduled to be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol Station block the buses carrying the migrants in Murrieta, California July 1, 2014. Some 140 undocumented immigrants, many of them women with children, will be flown from Texas to California and processed through a San Diego-area U.S. Border Patrol station as federal officials deal with a crush of Central American migrants at the border, a local mayor said on Monday.  REUTERS/Sam Hodgson  (UNITED STATES) 

Law enforcement officials riding buses packed with undocumented migrants who were scheduled to be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol Station watch as demonstrators block the buses in Murrieta, California July 1, 2014. Some 140 undocumented immigrants, many of them women with children, will be flown from Texas to California and processed through a San Diego-area U.S. Border Patrol station as federal officials deal with a crush of Central American migrants at the border, a local mayor said on Monday.  REUTERS/Sam Hodgson  (UNITED STATES) 

Buses packed with undocumented migrants who were scheduled to be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol Station retreat up the road after being stopped in their tracks by demonstrators in Murrieta, California July 1, 2014. Some 140 undocumented immigrants, many of them women with children, will be flown from Texas to California and processed through a San Diego-area U.S. Border Patrol station as federal officials deal with a crush of Central American migrants at the border, a local mayor said on Monday.  REUTERS/Sam Hodgson  (UNITED STATES)