Super Mojado Beats INS

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Monday, March 24, 2008 at 5:02 pm

If you guessed that this took place in Los Angeles, you’re right: more precisely, in Van Nuys, a district north of Hollywood.&nbsp;&nbsp; And if you guessed that it involved a masked wrestler, Mexican style, you know about Lucha Libre. <br><br>Last Saturday, Super Mojado, the masked hero of <a title="undocumented workers" target="_blank" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,340775,00.html" id="f.wv">undocumented workers</a>, beat the two-man team of Ronnie K, an unmasked white man, and Viper, the masked traitor to his Latino brothers.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br><br>The Immigration and Naturalization Service, the former INS, does not exist anymore, so the bad guys in this battle were the Irresistible Notorious Studs.&nbsp; That’s not to say that immigration control, now called ICE, for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was out of the picture. <br><br>The match was a fund-raiser for 138 workers arrested by ICE agents during a raid of Micro Solutions Enterprises, a computer-printer cartridge factory in Van Nuys, on Feb. 7.&nbsp; &nbsp;<br><br>Joseph Medina, a wrestling promoter who came up with the program, said the event raised $4,000.<br><br>An ICE spokeswoman, Viriginia Kice, sounded less than amused.&nbsp; She called the match "a tasteless exploitative publicity stunt."<br><br>Medina, for his part, said it was engaging for the audience. "You go there and yell at the wrestlers," he said, "and you get your stresses out."<br><br>Super Mojado is not like the <a title="Harlem Globetrotters" target="_blank" href="http://www.harlemglobetrotters.com/" id="k.s_">Harlem Globetrotters</a>, and INS are not like the Washington Generals, but they do come to mind.

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