Posted on 04/13/2005 8:22:55 AM PDT by areafiftyone
The lead organizer for the border patrol group the Minutemen said Tuesday that he wants to invite New York Sen. Hillary Clinton to come to the Arizona-Mexico border this month to review their operation, which has so far netted the arrests of more than 300 illegal immigrants.
"We're thinking of inviting Hillary Clinton," Minuteman founder James Gilchrist told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity, adding that he'd already looked into flight arrangements to Arizona for the former first lady and could provide appropriate security.
Gilchrist's decision to invite Clinton was likely prompted by her tough comments on border security - remarks that place her sharply to the right of the Bush administration on the issue.
"I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants," she announced in Feb. 2003 radio interview, adding that "people have to stop employing illegal immigrants."
"I mean, come up to Westchester, go to Suffolk and Nassau counties," Clinton railed. "Stand on the street corners in Brooklyn or the Bronx; you're going to see loads of people waiting to get picked up to go do yard work and construction work and domestic work."
"Clearly, we have to make some tough decisions as a country," the top Democrat urged.
In comments last November, the likely 2008 presidential nominee blasted the Bush administration for turning a blind eye to the problems at the border.
"I don't think that we have protected our borders or our ports or provided our first responders with the resources they need, so we can do more and we can do better," Clinton told the Fox News Channel.
"There's technology now available," she noted. "There are some advanced radar systems. There are biometric and other kinds of identification systems that we've been very slow to deploy and unwilling to spend money on."
Gilchrist said his patrol operation is open to Clinton and anyone else who wants to review its progress, explaining, "When I first launched this in October I insisted that we have open season for all law enforcement to come in and do whatever they want - and the same with the media."
And he pointed out the obvious political benefit for any politician who wants to lend support, noting, "For every [Minuteman] down here we've probably got a hundred thousand supporters across the country."
Gilchrist said the Minutemen have already helped round up scores of illegals.
"About 300," he told Hannity. "And about 40 of those were from an aerial observer who was up six hours yesterday in his aircraft."
Yup! Tancredo has already inoculated himself against Hillary and the immigration issue. Newt Gringrich has tried but when you read what he is really saying it is really just another shamnesty. Every other Republican contender is highly vulnerable.
Whatever it takes to get the job done.
Ms. Clinton may decline which would invite questions about her resolute with respect to the border issue.
GWB and GOP advisors will look at it as a shot across the bow, hopefully.
Not a bad idea.
Question to any one ...
I know who the Minutemen are. But, where did the name come from? Ediacate this Canuck please ...
they're looking to go home and need an effective scarecrow to put in their place. bet this will work.
((((SIGH)))) I guess its okay for alot of Freepers if Hillary wins the White House.
Just like we've always said. Some people will sell their souls to the devil as long as the devil tells them what they want to hear.
Yeah right, to a person(hillary) who pushed and got the pardons for FALN terrorists.
Whew whatever you are smoking, IMO, lay off of it.
PLEASE weigh in on this...
Watch he go for it. I hope she does, might wake some people up.
A string of south-pointingloudspeakers playing that cackle she calls a laugh would obviate the need for any border patrol.
...dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!!!
Dr. Peter Venckman
Self-described conservatives calling this movement (the minutemen) racists and bascially apologizing for the illegals; a so-called conservative president calls them vigilantes and wants to allow the illegals to stay and work here; all the while a self-avowed socialist is against the illegals and those who employ them...
WTF?
Very sad. Like the awkward teenager "I think she likes me. . . I think she likes me."
Don't you ever tire of your vaudevillian act?
P.S. -- Fire up another rock in your pipe.
Maybe Hillary can get that whole National Socialist thing working for her, for the elections in 2008.
Just shows you what a motivator, ethnic animus can be. These yahoos are salivating at the chance to stand next to Ms. abortion, gun control, high taxes, and terrorist pardoning(hillary).
"Just shows you what a motivator, ethnic animus can be."
Personally I'm thinking you're just upset that the girls over to stormfront weren't invited.
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