Hey, bayourod, why don't you put your money (instead of your foot) where your mouth is and come join us in April. Since you think the aliens are so peaceful, I'm sure you'd enjoy the trip. Arizona's Sonora Desert in April is absolutely beautiful.
Posted on 12/15/2004 8:05:59 PM PST by JackelopeBreeder
Buenos nachos, muchachos.
The periodic political silly season is over, so I’m off the campaign trails and back on the Illegal Alien Trails again. I seem to meet a more honest class of people out there – a lot of them honestly hate me. To be honest on my part, I get a nice warm fuzzy feeling from all that emotion.
The situation here has not changed in the last couple of months. We still have thousands crossing daily through Cochise County. The US Border Patrol is swamped; at any given moment there are several times as many illegal aliens running loose in the brush than there are agents available to track and apprehend them. Most get away.
Civil Homeland Defense is still busy patrolling and turning aliens over to the BP agents. American Border Patrol has secured a new headquarters site directly on the border with two UAV landing strips and is actively flying missions. A number of smaller groups have formed to protect outlying neighborhoods. Still, there isn’t enough manpower.
The good news is that reinforcements are on the way – but they’re not from the government.
A couple of months ago a gent named Jim Gilchrist was visiting Tombstone. He was a reporter years ago, so it sort of follows that he would visit the town’s historic newspapers. The old Epitaph is still in existence, but most of its articles are on the events and personalities of the Old West. The Tumbleweed sticks to current issues – and is owned by Chris Simcox, better known as the leader of Civil Homeland Defense.
Jim hit it off with Chris and ended up going out on patrol with CHD for a close up look at the border. One thing he noticed immediately was lack of Border Patrol personnel. Jim analyzed the situation and came up with a good idea on how to make up some of the manpower deficit.
He quietly started up the Minuteman Project, recruiting people from all over the country for what amounts to a working vacation in Cochise County. The objective is to act as spotters, documenting and publicizing the situation here. Just weeks after its inception, 139 people from 26 states have signed up to spend all or part of next April here in the desert as spotters. These are men and women from all walks of life. Six of those who signed up are pilots and they’re bringing their planes to provide aerial spotting.
Quite a few land owners here have already invited the group to set up camp on their property. A number of us locals (to include a couple of other Freepers besides myself) are busy doing local coordination. We could easily have a few hundred volunteers show up. People continue to sign up every day and the project doesn’t start for another three and a half months.
The open borders boohoos in Tucson have already gotten wind of the Minuteman Project and they are not best pleased – no, preciousss, not pleased at all. We’ve already been treated to the usual yammering and screeching from the usual suspects. Word has undoubtedly gotten to the coyotes as well.
I’m getting a good laugh just trying to imagine the reaction from our masters in DC. A lot of them were upset when CHD began putting groups of twenty or thirty out on patrol. They were highly embarassed when ABP fielded its own UAVs and broadcast the video feed live over the Internet. Now they have a couple of hundred typical Americans from all over the country lugging cameras into harm’s way on an out of control stretch of the border – and they brought their own air force.
Sounds fascinating.
Just stay relatively safe out there.
Ping!
If you really thought that they were terrorists, murderers, rapists, etc... you wouldn't try to stop them on the border any more than you would go into the inner city gang areas at night and try to take pictures of criminals committing crimes.
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"The situation here has not changed in the last couple of months. We still have thousands crossing daily through Cochise County."
"The US Border Patrol is swamped; at any given moment there are several times as many illegal aliens running loose in the brush than there are agents available to track and apprehend them. Most get away."
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My hat is off to you sir. I salute you.
If you really thought that they were terrorists, murderers, rapists, etc... you wouldn't try to stop them on the border any more than you would go into the inner city gang areas at night and try to take pictures of criminals committing crimes.
I see that you're still coming to the defense of your illegal alien lawbreaker buddies.
Who said anything about unarmed?
Hey, bayourod, why don't you put your money (instead of your foot) where your mouth is and come join us in April. Since you think the aliens are so peaceful, I'm sure you'd enjoy the trip. Arizona's Sonora Desert in April is absolutely beautiful.
Bump to that.
I like that name.
Since state governments and those in control in D.C. no longer represent the Ameican people, this seems to be the only way.
Robert Bonner 6/3/03
"We call it - the U.S. Border Patrol calls it - the West Desert corridor, and it is literally the corridor of death. Ninety (90) people died there last year, mainly in the summer months when temperatures soar to over 115 degrees (7) Fahrenheit. They died from thirst. They succumbed to the blinding heat, often within hours of the grueling trek. And this desert takes many days to cross. Many were found dead on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation.
Many have died, and unless we do something, many more will die.
A migrant who nearly lost his life in that desert last month before - luckily - being rescued by the Border Patrol and deported, said it well: "Trying to cross that desert is crazy!" Think again, before you risk your life. Mothers must help convince their children not to go, because many times they don't come back alive. "
Why don't you just fly to Cancun with me and we'll research the nite life there.
Is this the fellow from the midwest (Missouri? Kentucky?), who already organized one party to the border some time ago?
It's probably all of the above and then some.
People here are just fed up. These are not just humble little campesinos passing through. Lately I've seen too many incidents where they pop aggressive and violent on the Border Patrol. They know that they won't suffer any real penalty.
I dislike the term "Illegal Immigrant" as either you are Illegaly here or you have been procssed as an immigrant.. I detest what the Left has done to our language..
No, he's in southern California. Retired CPA.
Unarmed? Strange assumpition.
Incidentally, do you consider them harmless? If so, and considering there are over a half million illegal aliens currently incarcerated in U.S. Federal prisons for committing violent crimes, I'd say your position is a bit naive.
April, right?
ummmmm, FReepmail me.
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