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Well of course the Minutemen are an embarrassment to the Border Patrol. They see it as a babysitting service and it's embarrassing to them, as well it should be. If I were a Border Patrol agent and couldn't do my job any better than they do theirs, I would be ashamed of myself. I can guarantee you that 90% of the people working in the private sector have standards of performance so much higher that there's no comparison.
And yet you call for more BP agents? What is that saying about doing the same thing over and over again and getting the same results?
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Maybe you guys could train the BP. LOL It is amazing that such a small number of untrained volunteers has done what the BP could/would not do. Great job!
Thanks. As is SOP for me I have faxed this to the Whitehouse (202) 456-2461.
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bump for the MM
I was listening to Sean Hannity today as he interviewed Jim Gilchrist. Jim invited him down to look the situation over, and Sean committed to looking into coming down next week some time. He said he could probably do his radio show from their affiliate (KNST/790AM) in Tucson and drive down afterwards.
Excellent thread, and Bravo to the Minutemen.
IMO, the Border Patrol can only do so much because Washington DC help never comes until it is too late. DC is too PC. My guess is that a lot of the Federales and Mexican cops are complicit in the illegal/smuggler border problems that have been going on for decades, but no one in DC wants to talk about or stop it.
I predict the next man who is elected president will be the same man who endorses and supports the American Minuteman Volunteers. Especially those who volunteer their time by working in conjunction with the Border Patrol to prevent illegal aliens, criminals, smugglers, drug runners, and terrorists from entering our borders during a time of war.
Thanks for the update. The MM project has proven a resounding success and there's nothing anyone in the government or leftist media can say to change that fact.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050413-122548-7600r.htm
Border project declared success
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
PALOMINAS, Ariz. -- The chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus yesterday declared the "Minuteman Project" border vigil a success and invited its organizers to Washington next week to meet with members of Congress.
"Congratulations on your immensely successful Minuteman Project," Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican, said in a letter. "By all reports you have accomplished your primary mission, which was to draw public attention to the deplorable and unacceptable conditions on our borders.
"You have demonstrated that a physical presence on the border will deter illegal crossings, and the world can now see this," he said.
By the U.S. Border Patrol's count, the apprehensions so far this month are down by more than 50 percent.
Mr. Tancredo also said Mexican military units have diverted migrants east and west away from a 20-mile stretch of Arizona-Mexico border being patrolled by the Minutemen, "showing that the Mexican government can control the exits if it chooses to do."
Minuteman organizer James T. Gilchrist last night told a gathering of the Minuteman volunteers at the organization's command center that Mr. Tancredo had encouraged him to shut down the project, saying the mission had been "accomplished." But Mr. Gilchrist said although he and co-organizer Chris Simcox would travel to Washington next week, the Minuteman patrols would continue until April 30, as has been planned.
"We're staying until the 30th," he told the Minuteman gathering, which responded with applause and whoops of support. "We will stay on the line and adhere to our long-standing policy of no contact and no confrontation with any illegal aliens seeking to enter the United States."
The Minuteman volunteers, operating from 16 observation posts east and west of Naco, have spotted and reported to the Border Patrol more than 500 foreigners crossing into this country illegally since limited patrols began March 30.
Minuteman volunteers patrolled the 20-mile border segment 24 hours per day, seven days per week, working in three rotating shifts.
The observation posts included eight locations east of Naco along a dirt road separating Arizona and Mexico. Eight other posts were located along Highway 92 west of here at the base of the Coronado mountains -- a favorite smuggling corridor for both aliens and drugs.
U.S. law-enforcement authorities said several hundred foreigners are thought to be holed up in the mountains unable to make connections with smugglers along the highway because of the Minutemen.
There have been no corroborated reports of violence involving the volunteers and the illegals. One Mexican national complained that he been detained illegally by Minuteman volunteers, but the accusation was ruled unfounded by the Cochise County Sheriff's Department and the Mexican Consulate in Douglas.
That alien was photographed wearing a T-shirt that said, "Bryan Barton caught me crossing illegally into the United States and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." Mr. Barton was dismissed by Mr. Gilchrist because of the incident and escorted out of the Bible college here where volunteers are staying.
In his letter, Mr. Tancredo said he wanted Mr. Gilchrist and Mr. Simcox to meet with him and other members of the Immigration Reform Caucus.
"I want you to tell the Congress the story of the Minuteman Project and what you accomplished," Mr. Tancredo said. "Congratulations on a job well done."
The US government knows that. They'll be tightening the borders against the Guatemalans to protect the jobs of the Mexicans.
This makes it only too clear, what many of us have known for a long time now, that Bush and the RINO leadership do not want to stem the tide of illegal immigration. They follow an agenda of open borders with Mexico and the MMP is putting a chill right down their back.
By limiting violence from their side, they are performing proactive damage control that would heat this whole affair up and then Congre$$ would be compelled into action.
Just my $0.02, and a hare-brained theory.
You should be careful about the generalization of Border Patrol Supervisors. I know some that support the MMP. Make allies not enemies.
When and if the admin. decides to police the border properly, Fox will be the last to turn off the lights in Mexico. Everyone else will already be here.
Thanks.