Brief Report of some Activities of Day Nine of Minuteman Project

Day Nine and illegal alien apprehensions are still way down. Locally, traffic has shifted away from the Naco Line, moving eastwards towards Douglas and westward to the Huachuca Mountains and beyond to the San Rafael Valley. There are also reports of more traffic heading towards Nogales and the Tohono O’odham reservation.

There were a couple of good sized groups passing through the Huachucas overnight. Some were nabbed by the Border Patrol immediately after detection, with stragglers appearing throughout the day. Most were reportedly from Michoacan, west of Mexico City. One alien was seen to toss a cell phone into the brush and it was later recovered; the call history may be interesting. The last three stragglers made it back to the highway about lunchtime and were spotted, reported, and picked up by the Border Patrol. One of the agents told us later that these three were Guatamalan.

The morning was bizarre. Before I arrived on site, I found two young females (16-20 years old) frantically trying to flag down any ride they could find. Their coyote had abandoned them in the middle of the night and in the middle of nowhere. I called it in and waited about 200 yards away. By luck there was a deputy sheriff and a border patrol unit close by and they responded within a couple of minutes. The girls were tired, cold, hungry, dehydrated – and terrified. I wanted that coyote’s hide.

The morning went from bizarre to unreal within an hour. Chris Simcox and I were conferring on the day’s outposts when our scanners picked up message traffic on a group of 20+ illegals – all of them young females – spotted 16 miles north of the border. My guess is that it took them at least two days (possibly three) to reach that point, as the trails do not run in a straight line and cannot be traveled openly. Finding that many women in one group with no men is unheard of. The Border Patrol did a thorough ground/air search of the surrounding area and found no sign of anyone bearing a Y-chromosome. No other details available at this time.

There was a small brushfire of “undetermined” origin in the upper end of Hunter Canyon late this afternoon, so the night shift may see some more traffic later tonight.

Let me add the following to Jackelopebreeder's report:

The source of the following is idratherbepainting and her doctor friend from Phoenix.

Friends of mine and Minuteman Project volunteers were having fun with the coyotes yesterday. On the road about 1/2 mile from my house is a number of popular load pickup points. Yesterday my friends drove down the road looking for signs of illegals or coyotes. Sure enough, in a really popular spot they saw the tell-tale baseball cap on the fence post. That means there's a group with the coyote in the field waiting for pickup or possibly a food drop off. The coyotes have cell phones and arrange these spots and use signs like a baseball cap as a signal of their exact location. Local high school kids and such who are making a few bucks enabling the illegals will get a phone call sometimes with a number and a food drop off point. They'll go down to McDonalds and pick up 100 one dollar sandwiches and come out to the drop off point, give it to the coyote, and collect $200. Instant $100 profit - and illegal.

One of my friends saw the cap, cut it up and threw it on the ground. She drove on about one mile and found some flourescent pink and orange marking tapes tied to the fence like they use on job sites and in landscaping. Coyotes use this all the time to mark trails or pickup points. She cut the tapes from the fence.

She drove back the direction she came and saw that the cap on the fence had been replaced. She cut this cap up too and yelled to the unseen group of illegals "You're not getting your food or a pickup today!" She finished there and drove back down the road again. This time she saw a pickup vehicle - a minivan - at the location where she'd cut the marking tapes. She pulled over behind the minivan and it peeled out and left the area. She yelled at the unseen group of illegals, "No pick up for you!" She saw that the tapes had been replaced by a pants cuff cut from a pair of jeans. She cut it up and tossed it away.

She went back to the place where she'd seen the caps and found now a sock on the fence. She took it off and cut it up. Her friend finally took pity on the illegals in the field and called Border Patrol and let them know there was possibly two groups of illegals in the field and that they're likely getting really hungry and some of them don't have their hats anymore. Border Patrol responded and she left the area.

Last night they went out there again and found two coyotes by the road. When lit up with their spotlights the coyotes ran away into the field. This morning they found a cell phone in the field where the coyotes had been. I've got possession of that cell phone and I am trying to get a charger cable to recharge it and get the numbers off of it. I will turn over the phone numbers and cell phone to Border Patrol if I can get anything from it and confirm it was actually dropped by a coyote.

The load drivers got really brazen last night. About 1.5 miles from my house the Minuteman Project volunteers observed a group of illegals and their coyote coming down from the mountain. They got close enough for the coyote to be observed using a cell phone arranging a pickup. Border Patrol was called. Suddenly, a van pulled into the area in Coronado National Park and the illegal aliens ran and jumped in. The van peeled out and ran straight at the MMP volunteers who dodged out of the way. The van hit the highway and headed north at a high rate of speed. Border Patrol was just arriving and gave chase. At this point we don't know the disposition of the van and its occupants. There's a good chance that they were intercepted at the check point further north, but that is only if the check point was even open at the time (thanks to Rep. Jim Kolbe's (RINO-AZ) meddling it is only open half the time).

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