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Since Arizona’s local law enforcement began enforcing illegal immigration laws and an employer sanctions law went into effect, illegal immigrants have been fleeing the state in large numbers. The effects have been far-ranging. Commuters are reporting fewer vehicles on the freeways, shortening their rush-hour commutes. What had become a serious transportation problem in Arizona is losing its urgency. English Learner Language (ELL) students started dropping out of school. This helped end a confrontation between the state legislature and a liberal federal judge who had ordered the state to spend more money on ELL classes. Fewer illegal immigrants are using hospital...

After a hostile reception in April, Chris Simcox's return Monday to the University of Texas at San Antonio was much quieter, though not entirely free of protest. Simcox, president of the Arizona-based Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, was invited to campus by UTSA's chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas to talk about the values of the Minutemen, often-armed citizens who patrol U.S. borders reporting illegal activity to police. He spoke in the Retama Auditorium at the University Center. A handful of students chanting "Racist, fascist, go away!" interrupted Simcox during his speech, but were led away in orderly fashion by...

Minutemen finish border fence on a Palominas ranch By Jonathan Clark/Wick News Service BISBEE - Eight months after breaking ground on a 10-mile stretch of border fencing at the Palominas ranch of John and Jack Ladd, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps says it has completed the project. Officials with the civilian border watch group report that a team of volunteers finished the final 7 1/2-mile length of five-strand barbed wire fencing on Sunday after working 20 consecutive days on the effort. Volunteers and a hired contractor completed the first 2 1/2 miles of fencing in July after beginning work in...

One of the charitable organizations cited by Minuteman Civil Defense Corps boss Chris Simcox on why financial accountability concerns raised by some corps members were unfounded has been fined for failing to keep its own financial records in order, The Washington Times has learned. The Declaration Foundation, a tax-exempt charity created by conservative activist Alan Keyes, who has vigorously supported the Minuteman movement, was fined $6,500 in August and prohibited by the Pennsylvania Bureau of Charitable Organizations from soliciting donations until it becomes "properly registered." The Aug. 18 "agreement and order," signed by Declaration Foundation Executive Director Mary Parker Lewis,...

I am a member of NICPAC (Nevada Independent Conservatives Political Action Committee). We are hosting a symposium in Reno, Nevada featuring, among others, Chris Simcox of the Minutemen Project. Apparently, the same people who organized the illegal immigration march have caught wind of this and are planning to protest our symposium (it will be held at the Meadow Wood Courtyard Hotel - next to Wild Oats Market - on Friday, June 2, 2006 at 5:30 p.m.) I am asking my fellow freepers to help me organize a counter-protest in support of our symposium. Signs, American flags, and a great spirit...

Taking matters into their own hands, some activists are working to build a fence along the nearly 2,000-mile U.S. southern border – with or without government participation. Using the slogan "American Citizens Securing the Borders Themselves," The Border Fence Project hopes to raise enough money to build a fence along 90 percent of the U.S.-Mexico border that currently has no physical barrier. According to the effort's website, the "fencing solution" will include the use of near-wholesale raw materials and use volunteer labor to build the structure. Leaders from both parties in Washington have been reluctant to advocate a fence along...

TUCSON, Ariz. Spokesmen for a border watch group say volunteer offers to help build border fencing are flooding in. The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps has said it'll build fencing on the Mexican border unless President Bush militarizes the border and adds new security fencing. Minuteman national leader Chris Simcox says the group has struck a chord with Americans. Its members are conducting border operations to watch for and report illegal immigrants and smugglers entering the country. People have offered to donate or help build a fence, have pledged equipment and say they want fencing on their land. Simcox says landowners...

TUCSON, Ariz. - If the government doesn't build security fencing along the Mexico border, Minuteman border watch leader Chris Simcox says he and his supporters will. Simcox, whose civilian watch group opposes illegal immigration, said Wednesday he was sending an ultimatum to President Bush to deploy military reserves to the Arizona border by May 25 or his supporters will break ground for their own building project. "We're going to show the federal government how easy it is to build these security fences, how inexpensively they can be built when built by private people and free enterprise," Simcox said. Congress has...

Minuteman founder Chris Simcox yesterday announced plans for a new nationwide "Secure Our Borders" campaign in April, saying 6,500 civilian volunteers will man observation posts and conduct patrols along 800 miles of U.S. border with Mexico and Canada. Mr. Simcox, president of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC), said new efforts are being made to better respond to thousands of civilians who are expected to volunteer and a revised leadership structure has been established to meet what he called "the growing needs of continued Minuteman border security operations." Minuteman chapters have been established or are pending in 35 states, he...

Two members of a civilian border-patrol group similar to the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps were depicted as guilty of murder in tonight's episode of NBC's "Law & Order."

Is NBC accusing the Minutemen, the civilian border-patrol group, of murder? That's the charge of the group's president, Chris Simcox, who points to a commercial for tonight's "Law and Order" episode dealing with illegal immigration. Simcox has sent a letter to NBC demanding the network "cease and desist" airing the promo. According to Simcox's Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, the promo includes the following verbiage:

Article IV, Section 4 of the United States Constitution "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion and against domestic Violence." TOMBSTONE, AZ (October 18, 2005) – Chris Simcox, president of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (“MCDC”), today urged Congress and the Bush administration to follow their Constitutional oaths to protect the country from foreign invasion and assault by securing our porous borders immediately. Simcox issued the following statement on the occasion of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration today: “For four long...

Minuteman Northern Border Watch Will Be International By Kevin Fobbs When the American-Canadian Conservative Coalition (AC3) announced last week it was joining Chris Simcox and the Minuteman Project to develop an internationally supported citizens border watch project patterned after the successful Minuteman Project of Arizona, American and Canadian media and political observers wondered how this historic effort would work. It was clear from the onset that with both nations sharing a mutual border of over 4,000 miles which are largely unprotected coupled with the release last week of the Canadian Senate Committee on National Security and Defense report which candidly...

The civilian-led border watch group known as the Minuteman Project plans to expand its membership into Canada, MSNBC.com has learned. The American-Canadian Conservative Coalition (AC3) has agreed to recruit and field Canadian volunteers who will join with the U.S.-based Minutemen to hold simultaneous cross-border vigils along the Michigan-Ontario border sometime this summer. The joint project will be called “Michigan-Ontario Minuteman Border Neighborhood Watch, according to a Minuteman Project spokesperson. The Minuteman Project came to prominence in April when the group fielded about 900 volunteers to patrol a 23-mile stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border. Earlier this week Chris Simcox, founder of...

LAS VEGAS - The monthlong Minuteman Project, which monitored illegal immigration in Arizona, is planning similar watches in California and along the Canadian border and will keep up its effort unless the federal government begins military patrols, a group leader said. "It's your country -- take it back," Minuteman organizer Chris Simcox told hundreds of people gathered for a two-day summit hosted by the Las Vegas-based Wake Up American Foundation. Outside, about 200 Hispanic protesters denounced the meeting as racist. Simcox said his group, which claims about 15,000 members, considers the border issue not about race but about national security...

To: Congress of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform 2157 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC From: Chris Simcox President of Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, Inc. P.O. Box 1489 Tombstone, Arizona 85638 Almost four years after the terrible terrorist attacks upon our country on September 11, 2001, citizens of the United States remain concerned about our national security, specifically our outrageously porous international border with Mexico. Those who live along the border-state region with Mexico have great concern for their personal safety as well as concern over the lack of border security. Despite repeated warnings from...

The organizers of a group of volunteers who patrolled the Mexican border for illegal immigrants brought their "minuteman Project" to Washington on Wednesday, where they were welcomed by Washington's top crusader on the issue, Rep. Tom Tancredo.

<p>PALOMINAS, Ariz. -- Wearing a camouflage jacket that cloaks the semi-automatic handgun at his waist, Chris Simcox aims his binoculars less than a mile away toward the seven strands of barbed wire that divide this remote desert town from Mexico.</p>

<p>Enough is enough. The mainstream popular print and television media have been sensationalizing my efforts; after all, I did lead them into the trap.</p> <p>You have been completely misinformed. The print media have created a fabrication of my intentions and goals. Folks, you've been had, again!</p>

Jeffry Scott /Staff Glenn Spencer, head of the American Border Patrol organization, aligns his latest surveillance equipment, which includes a satellite video uplink. Spencer says he is counseling Tombstone publisher Chris Simcox and his followers to obey the law. AP file photo Border concerns are not limited to Arizona. The Border Patrol stays busy along the entire frontier with Mexico watching for illegal activity, as patrol supervisor Dan Garibay did in 2001 in Laredo, Texas. By Ignacio Ibarra ARIZONA DAILY STAR Arizona leaders at the state and federal level are calling for investigations into armed civilian patrols along the state's...