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PALOMINAS — Another group has formed out of frustration regarding U.S. immigration policy, and the Palominas Trading Post on Highway 92 provided the arena for its political venting Saturday. The new group, S.O.S. Borders, is described as a more moderate organization by co-director Kimberly Fletcher. It has a philosophy based on common-sense need for border security, she said. Fletcher’s group organized the rally at which leaders and participants in many already well-known organizations such as the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, American Border Patrol, the new-but-growing Mothers Against Illegal Aliens organization, Eagle Forum and Desert Visions spoke. The rally was called...

The names in the American pantheon of black civil rights leaders is long. It stretches from Crispus Attucks, a slave of black and American Indian parents who was killed in the 1770 Boston Massacre by British soldiers, to Andrew Young Jr., a 1960s civil rights leader and later Atlanta mayor. Now there's an effort to add a new name to the list: Minutemen. The lawn-chair brigade, which appointed itself border guardians last year, has now taken it upon itself to become guardians of black America. The Minutemen, lead by cofounder and failed congressional candidate Jim Gilchrist of California, launched a...

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