Posted on 04/03/2005 9:37:30 PM PDT by Spiff
"The whole exercise is stilly and obviously ineffective."
You mean he isn't referring to the ACLU kids? They crack me up!
The big "why" questions are -- "why are the coming across?" That's the first question I would ask.
That's easy. They're coming across because we let them come across. They're staying because we let employers break the law and hire them. They're staying because they can drop and anchor baby here and apply to stay. The coming because of the promise of jobs, free benefits, etc.
Your right - I need to get down there and volunteer - no excuses.
Buenos nachos, muchachos.Today was a busy day for the Minuteman Project. Patrols don’t officially start until tomorrow, but yesterday and today were both spent getting teams oriented and trained up on the tricks of the trails – the Ilegal Alien Trails, that is.
(As I type this, just over a hundred MMP members are sitting quietly in the night watching those trails.)
The morning began with the standard briefing and assigning new arrivals to teams. This went smoothly and teams were deployed across the length of the border and in other areas of interest. Unfortunately, a good bit of my anonymity went down the tubes as Fox News, Univision, and Telemundo had video crews present and I was introduced by name as being in charge of the teams in the canyons.
The media went out with us again. I hope everyone gets to see one set of video taken by Fox News. A team of Minutemen from Grand Junction, Colorado had found the absolute mother of all lay-up areas along a ridgeline in Coronado National Forest. The cute young Fox News babe went dancing up that ridgeline like a mountain goat. Imagine a field of discarded trash, clothing, backpacks, and assorted waste a half mile in length. Several areas had been improved into semi-permanent status with tarps and tentage. Fox got the entire area on tape. I really hope this one shows up on TV.
Shortly afterwards, we engaged in a practice exercise with the Minuteman Air Force, getting both ground and air personnel familiar with comms and procedures. It took a remarkably short time for all to learn exactly how to put the aircraft exactly over a point of interest.
Illegal alien traffic remained extremely low today. We only caught five in the western sector and it took luck, time and a little detective work. Fellow LePer idratherbepainting had gone out to the highway to meet a photo-journalist from the San Jose Mercury News, but when she got to the meeting point the first thing she say was a glove penned to the barbed wire next to where she parked – current coyote signal that this is a pick-up point for illegals.
She called me down from the canyons and as I drove up I spotted a strange scene: a nice neat line of crisply folded McDonalds bags (food for five) and a plastic bag full of gallon water jugs, all in plain sight on the shoulder of the highway. Dumbness on the part of the delivery boy, exacerbated by the fact that he left all the receipts. The water had been purchased 30 minutes earlier and the food 20 minutes before I found it, from stores 6 miles north of the location.
There being no sign of the rightful owners, we photographed it in place, then placed the potential litter in the back of my truck as a late lunch for idratherbepainting’s dogs. I kept the water. Another MMP team was moved into the area while she and I and the photo-journalist started a wider search. We found further widespread cast-off items, but our five tourists without visas were running late and didn’t show up for another two hours. The actual spotting by MMP and the Border Patrol apprehension was exhaustively captured on film by a photographer from the New York Times.
Oddly, perhaps, most of the media has been friendly and most articles have been fairly favorable so far. I guess it’s because they get the same rude welcome to the realities of the border that the out of town Minutemen receive. I get the same question over and over from both groups: “How do you live with this situation day after day?”
I have to admit that I do not have any good answer to that question.
From the Federalist;
Meeting with Mexican President Vicente Fox, President Bush went so far as to disingenuously refer to citizen-volunteers of the Minuteman Project as "vigilantes." Perhaps Mr. Bush did not yet receive the
memo for extending PC terminology into this topic.
These volunteers are not "vigilantes" -- they are "undocumented persons," specifically,
"undocumented Border Patrol agents." They are also "willing workers matched with willing employers" (border-area residents happy to have greater protections). And they are simply "doing jobs that Americans
won't do" (that is, the jobs the American President and members of Congress won't do, but are constitutionally-mandated duties for common defense against border invasion).
Contrary to the President, the Border Patrol is apparently asking for more "vigilantes," with its "Operation Be Alert" program encouraging citizens to report suspicious activity along the nation's border. Citizens can report such activity by calling the U.S. Border Patrol hotline: 1-877-USBP-HELP (872-7435).
Meanwhile, Wednesday, four Iraqis were detained at Mexicali airport,Mexico, for carrying fake Dutch passports; two others with fake Greek passports were caught at a highway checkpoint. While scant information is available at this time, we seriously doubt the would-be insurgents were taking advantage of their recent liberation to visit Disneyland.
awesome and well written report Spiff!
please extend my thanks and gratitude to JackalopeBreeder.
God Bless the Patriot MinuteMen
See link at post #89.
I think the 118 number was in this morning's Herald. They haven't yet updated the web site with today's issue. As soon as they do, I'm going to post it...unless someone beats me to it!
I don't get unlimited 'net access anymore.
Outstanding...Welcome to FreeRepublic.
See link at post #89!
A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.
Thanks for these updates...they are really appreciated!
Info here...for a friend from Colombia.
Thanks.
Thanks for the update, my how time flies!
Congrats on your citizenship.
You should take a few minutes and catalog your 3-day experience in a new posting with great detail for all of us to read.
Good to hear that we are irritating Fox!
Thankyouamericacd ....... Welcome to the U.S. Glad to have you.
Nam Vet
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