Posted on 04/22/2005 4:34:55 PM PDT by kingattax
President George Bush called them “vigilantes.” Self-appointed “civil rights” activists called them “racists.” The U.S. Border Patrol fretted that they might injure someone or be hurt themselves. And Mexico’s president threatened to haul them into international court.
But the 635 volunteers who compose the Minuteman Project apparently have done what their president, the civil rights hacks, the Border Patrol, and the Mexican government have been unable to do: stem the flood of illegal aliens across a notoriously porous 23-mile stretch of Arizona’s border with Mexico.
The barren stretch is a prime illegal entry point along the Mexico-Arizona border, where last year the U.S. Border Patrol detained 490,000 illegal aliens, nearly half of the 1.1 million caught along the two nation’s entire common border.
Simultaneously, the Minuteman Project has accomplished another major objective as it passes the halfway mark in its one-month campaign as civilian border watchers. Minuteman Project volunteers have drawn widespread interest and attention to the problem of lax protection of the U.S.-Mexico border with news stories reported internationally concerning their efforts.
By last count (April 12), Minuteman Project volunteers had “directly facilitated” 268 Border Patrol apprehensions along the stretch of border previously noted as the most vulnerable area for illegal immigrants to gain access to the U.S.
“The Border Patrol has never been able to shut down the border like we have,” said Chris Simcox, a retired schoolteacher and one of the co-organizers. Simcox previously has lobbied for tighter border controls to stop drug dealers, criminals and potential terrorists from sneaking into the United States. “We’re here to demonstrate that physical presence on the border will seal the border.”
The very presence of the Minuteman Project civilian border patrollers appears also to have been enough to dissuade many illegal immigrants from even attempting to cross.
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If the word vigilante is used then all I have to say is that we could use a lot more vigilante's on the border. These Minutemen have shown that the borders can be sealed and if that is a Vigilante deal, then my hat is off to them.
I thought the other evening when every one was trying diferent names for the Minute Men, why not "Neighborhood Watch"?
From what some of the residents on that border have said they have had their homes "watched" by these Minute Men".
Most neighborhood watch organizations work just exactly
like that. Neighbors watching your home and alerting police to any danger.
What do you expect from a proud member of La Raza?
The second sentence of the article starts with "Self-appointed." Unless, you are referring to something else.
Ohhhh, great book. Call me biased, but this second novel of yours I think is even better than the first and full of very interesting current event situations. New chapters coming soon, I hope?
Yep, soon.
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