Follow-up: “Super Mojado” tackled “INS Man”

Last week, a new wrestler named the Super Mojado introduced himself as a socially conscious grappler who would fight for Southern California’s immigrant community. On Saturday, he fought in a charity bout where proceeds would go to over 100 immigrants detained in a February raid. Super Mojado fought “INS Man”- a white rudo who yelled “You're going back to Mexico!” at the crowd. (INS was the former acronym of the U.S. Immigration Service).

The bout’s promoter claimed that the event raised approximately $4000, though a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman wasn’t too happy with Super Mojado’s entry into the ring:

"When we went into that factory we sought to group workers according to their status — we segregated U.S. citizens, people who had green cards and then people who did not have any appropriate authorization," [ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice] said.

"But we would not refer to anybody in that vernacular — that's not an appropriate term," she continued. "It's like so many things associated with professional wrestling — it's all hyperbole and myth."

Super Mojado and INS sound like "a tasteless exploitive publicity stunt," she said.

Sources- The Latin Americanist, Los Angeles Times, FOXNews.com

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