Eyewitness report from the US/Mexico border from two Minuteman Project volunteers

Eyewitness report from the Arizona/Mexico border from two Minuteman volunteers

Wind is really strong today. Blew over one of the porta-pots they put out in the field for the tenters to use. It was very strong out on the line for the time we were there.

Lots of new people came in today. Some to stay the weekend and some for a week or more. It is encouraging to see new people arrive every day.

We received an official BP report today. Only 74 aliens arrested yesterday where normally there are hundreds. In the sector where normally 500 to 600 aliens cross daily there were 0 arrested.

I mentioned yesterday that the BP was getting friendlier. The Agents in the field are but we found out today that they have a supervisor on duty 24/7 specifically assigned to interrogate any illegal aliens that are spotted and reported by the Minutemen and arrested by the BP to determine if the Minutemen did, said or even gestured anything that they can charge the Minutemen with. Our government does not want the Minuteman project to succeed. The BP supervisors are following the party line like the good little sheep they are and they are afraid that if the Minutemen project succeeds it will show the world how ineffective the BP is under the direction of its present supervisors. Washington DC does not want us to succeed.

We still have news media running all over the place interviewing everyone and taking pictures of everything in sight. A TV crew from Russia showed up today. Crews from Japan and Australia have been here also.

Barb volunteered for a 2-hour shift in the communications center today when we got back in from the line. Then we stood security on the main gate from 8 to 12. It was quiet for a change but I thought I was back in Washington state it was so cold out there.

Minutemen patrols observed and reported numerous attempts of groups attempting to cross last night in the mountains. The BP caught some of them and some got away. (They call them “get-a-ways”)

News Flash: The US Government announced today a plan that will tighten all borders by 2008. Unfortunately Mexico announced a plan to have all their people here by 2007.

Eyewitness report from the Arizona/Mexico border from two Minuteman volunteers

This is the tenth day of the Minutemen project and we are still determined to hold the line. Local law enforcement and individual Border Patrol Agents speaking off the record, say the illegal immigration has virtually stopped in the sector patrolled by the Minutemen. We have destroyed the historic immigration myth that it impossible to stop illegal immigrants.

Got up this morning and went out on the Naco Line and manned an observation post from 9A to 2P. The Mexican Federal Police (Federale) across the border were very active today. Directly across from our observation post is a group of oak trees, a large ravine, and a couple of railway trestles. The Mexican government has set up a large water point in these trees where illegals can get water and lay up and wait for opportunities to enter the US. The Mexicans call it Camp Freedom. The Federales were congregating in this area all day, which is unusual. We watched them - they watched us. Touché!!!

Lou Dobbs came out to the Naco line this morning to look around. He is going to be doing a TV show about the Minutemen and wanted first hand information for his programs.

A couple of locals that stopped by today stated they had never seen so many Border Patrol in the area we are observing as they have since we have been there. One local stated they have trouble getting them to respond when they spot illegals coming across and report it. Most of the locals thank us over and over for drawing attention to the problems along the border. There are some who don’t want us here for whatever reasons. Everyone has the draw his or her own conclusions. It is a rumored some conspire with the smugglers. Anything is possible down here.

Returned to the camp at 2P to assist in the communications center, keeping records, answering phones and manning radios. It is a very busy place at times.

Oh yeah, on the way back to camp from the line Barb and I spotted an illegal walking along the highway about a half mile from camp. We notified the Border Patrol and he was picked up.

Lots of action out by the mountains last night. Numerous spottings of attempted crossing by Minutemen. Rumor has it the illegals and drug smugglers are backed up in the mountains because we are watching this part of the border so closed. They are running out of food and water and some of them are making desperate runs across. We spot and report them and the Border Patrol manages to catch some of them. It is like a three ring circus down here. Like a game of hide and seek everyday. Border Patrol searches them out, apprehends them, gives them food and water, medical care if they need it, and a free ride back to Mexico. Then they turn around and do the same thing the next night. Sometimes with the same person. Burn out must be high for them.

Stood security at the gate from 8P to 12P cold but uneventful. Another day for the Minutemen

Don’t worry though; King George didn’t like the original Minutemen either.

Popping in for a heads up...in case no one's seen it. Yeah, the Minuteman Project will never work, huh.

Heard Jim on the radio this afternoon mentioning 6,000+ illegals stopped??? You guys make me so damn proud. :D *Sniff*

--snip--

From the mouth of Emporer Misha himself. Hopefully someone with Jim's ear will see this, and get the message to him to prepare. An email message from me would be lost in the huge pile he's got now.

http://www.nicedoggie.net

--snip--

Someone Dumber This Way Comes

The undocumented border patrol officers in Arizona had best ready themselves for the arrival of yet another group of jobless migrants. But these migrants don't need no stinkin' jobs cause they're from San Francisco Indybay, the Berkeley boobs who proved too dumb to stay with IndyMedia and so had to corner their own little niche of blistering stupidity.

On April 17-18, a California delegation of immigrant rights and human rights activists will be in Douglas, Arizona to respond to the presence of vigilantes on the US/México border, and to their hate messages.

JOIN THE CALIFORNIA DELEGATION TO ARIZONA TO SEND THE MESSAGE: NO VIGILANTEISM ON THE US/MÉXICO BORDER! IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS!

NO WAR FOR OIL! SUPPORT ORGANIC FAIR-TRADE SHADE-GROWN COFFEE! HELP PRINCE MIKE OKOYE TRANSFER FUNDS FROM THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION!

Because when it's in all caps it just has to be important… Especially when they spell "vigilantism" with an 'e' like the average Nigerian spam artist.
Give us more, O Caesar!

On April 17-18, a California delegation of immigrant rights and human rights activists will be in Douglas, Arizona to respond to the presence of vigilantes on the US/México border, and to their hate messages. This group of 20-40 activists, in coordination with allies in Arizona, will counter the national media coverage and international attention that the "Minutemen" have received with our message: We will not tolerate vigilanteism against immigrant communities! Immigrant rights are human rights!

Um, illegal immigrants have the right to deportation. Berkeley activists are human, or at least hominids. DEPORT BERKELEY ACTIVISTS!

SCHEDULE:

APRIL 16: Vehicles will leave from Centro del Pueblo, 474 Valencia St. at 7 am. Riders will be expected to pay at least $50 for gas. Drive to Arizona takes approximately 13 hours.

For the low low price of $50 you too can ride with an obnoxious smelly hippy for 13 hours. Sign up now. Spaces are limited.

*WHAT KIND OF SUPPORT WE NEED:

--We need vehicles to drive participants to Arizona! If you are able to drive passengers to Arizona, please call Renee Saucedo...

So if you have $50 and a car you can spend 13 hours hauling obnoxious smell hippies to Arizona. But wait, it gets better.

--If you can go to Arizona, please join us! If not, please feel free to
make a monetary donation to the trip. We will need funds for basic necessities like food and lodging.

Yes, you have to feed the worthless leeches too! You even have to give them a place to stay! Heck, imagine their astonished reactions when some news person mentions that illegal immigrants are coming in search of jobs. "Jobs? What's that? Oh, you mean like being assigned to a booth to hand out flyers at a rally…"

*EXPECTATIONS OF PARTICIPANTS

--Participants must be documented. At the border, we expect to be near the vigilantes and the Border Patrol. We consider this action to be too risky for people without papers. Undocumented immigrants will be participating from California, helping with the local media, etc.

No illegal aliens allowed. Heh...

--Participants must commit to practice non-violence. Absolutely no weapons! We know that some of the vigilantes are armed, and we don't want to provoke any unnecessary reactions from them. The group will conduct a peaceful march and press conference at the border, close to the vigilantes' posts.

The obligatory "Please don't tempt anyone to shoot our utterly worthless asses." As bad as that trip sounds, it really would be worse to have to drive 13 hours back to Berkeley in a Yugo full of dope-smoking smelly hippies with sucking chest wounds.

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat. "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
--Lewis Carol, Alice in Wonderland

"Hope those investments you [ClintonBeGone] made in Mexico don't go belly up on you when we secure the border (not)!" --Boot Hill

"Ahh, so that's what has that Open Borders Subversive's hair on fire about the MMP." --WRhine

OK, all in favor of some more revealing ClintonBeGone quotes, raise your hands!!!

ClintonBeGone in his own words...

"I've got some money invested in Paraiso del Mar [Mexico]. I hope some day to have a home there." --ClintonBeGone

"You couldn't beat the Mexicans lead by brother Santa Anna at the Alamo." --ClintonBeGone

"Remember me, D. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna." --ClintonBeGone

"We've never had such good relations with Mexico as we have now..." --ClintonBeGone

"[Vincente] Fox absolutely must be reelected." --ClintonBeGone

"I still don't agree with punishing innocent employers." --ClintonBeGone

"I'm all for eroding our tax base" --ClintonBeGone

Why is this picture of Santa Anna so important to this post?

Besides being ClintonBeGone's patron saint, next week will mark the 169 anniversary of General D. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, having his army destroyed and his ass handed to him by a rag-tag group of American volunteer patriots, that decided on their own that they weren't gonna take any more crap from Mexico.

Curiously, the number of volunteers that destroyed Mexico's dreams of a northern empire in 1836, was about the same number of volunteer patriots on that border today in Arizona.

God bless the Minutemen, 1776 and 2005!

--Boot Hill

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