The Miracle on the Southwest Border: Illegal Immigration Smashed [Minuteman Project]

Rep. Charlie Norwood's Official House of Representatives Website ^ | 8 April 2005 | Rep. Charlie Norwood, 9th District, GA

[Spiff]

This is a great article written by someone completely removed from the project and the immigration reform movement. He sent his people to check it out and this is his report. I've not read a better article about the Minuteman Project and coming from an unbiased source, Norwood's article really does the effort the justice it is due.

I was at a Minuteman Project meeting today and it was announced that the effort WILL NOT end on April 30th due its overwhelming success and calls from the community asking for them to keep it going. Simcox and Gilchrist are going to be travelling to Washington D.C. to bring Congress information about the Minuteman Project's success and the border problems in general. They will meet with several congressmen and will then testify before the Immigration Reform Caucus.

Today the Minuteman Project Air Force was out in numbers. There were planes buzzing the border all day going as far East as parts of New Mexico. I spent a couple of hours on the Naco line, got my picture taken with Jim Gilchrist with me pointing at the gaping hole in the weak barbed wire fence there (will post later).

Even after a fitful night trying to sleep in a tent on the San Pedro River (illegal alien alley) on my son's first Boy Scout campout, I'm going to be doing the 10PM-6AM shift tonight in the Huachuca Mountains. This will be my first night shift. I'll be joined by FReepers AZHSer, her husband, and InTheArena. I wish I had some thermal/night vision stuff, or a parabolic microphone. I'd be able to see or hear the criminal invaders long before they got near me.

I'll provide a report tomorrow.

[Spiff]

ping

[Czar]

As usual, great post. Very, very encouraging.

Thanks.

[NordP]

Hubby will be there soon! Good job MM!!!

[ClintonBeGone]

This is a great article written by someone completely removed from the project and the immigration reform movement. . . . I've not read a better article about the Minuteman Project and coming from an unbiased source, Norwood's article really does the effort the justice it is due.

Spiff, perhaps you missed this passage:

"This past Sunday, the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, of which I am a member, sent two senior staffers to investigate first-hand a chain of events beginning in late March which could force Congress and the Administration to dramatically rethink our approach to combating illegal immigration."

Norwood is about as unbiased as Tancredo.

[Dubya]

Bump for border check later.

[flashbunny]

And you're about as unbiased as Dane and Bayourod.

[Spiff]

Norwood is about as unbiased as Tancredo.

You forgot to call him a racist xenophobe bigot, quisling.

[ClintonBeGone]

And you're about as unbiased as Dane and Bayourod.

All I've hoped from your side of this debate is honesty. Calling Norwood unbiased is not honesty.

[fullchroma]

Bump from a grateful Arizona native.

[ClintonBeGone]

You forgot to call him a racist xenophobe bigot, quisling

I would prefer to focus on the veracity of the claim that Norwood is unbiased.

[cabojoe]

Spiff thanks for the info you have been providing, and thanks for fighting the good fight around here, despite the few knuckleheads. If you have a ping list please add me.

[ikka]

He sent a retired Marine Colonel and someone who is honorably serving in the National Guard as the people to check it out and report back.

People with experience in perimeter control, experience in leadership and who have shown sound judgment in the past. I don't know you, but I will trust a Marine Colonel over some anonymous poster.

[dagnabbit]

Could the minutemen please somehow funnel all illegal alien traffic through a certain Crawford, Texas ranch?

[Liberator]

Thanks for all your great work, Spiff...

We need to keep hearing about the progess that's been made, slowly but surely.

[Spiff]

I would prefer to focus on the veracity of the claim that Norwood is unbiased.

Quisling.

When was the last time you heard of Norwood connected with the illegal immigration issue? I didn't know he was a member of the Immigration Reform Caucus. I've been involved with this issue for years and never heard a peep from Norwood. He's a member of many caucuses, does that mean he's "biased" on every issue related to any of the caucuses? It just means that he's a member of the caucus where the issue is addressed and would likely know more about the issue than anyone in Congress outside of the caucus.

As for your claims that you only want honesty from "our" side - that's laughable in the extreme given the blatant lies and smears coming from your side. To call Tancredo and others involved in this effort "racist" and such is about as dishonest as it gets.

[Liberator]

"Could the minutemen please somehow funnel all illegal alien traffic through a certain Crawford, Texas ranch?"

Lol, yeah, from the backdoor right on through the front door....

JUST like what Dubya's doing with the country.

[A. Pole]

Local law enforcement, and individual Border Patrol officers speaking off-the-record, say that illegal immigration has virtually stopped in the sector patrolled by the Minutemen as a direct result of Minutemen activity and publicity. Regardless of the cause, a historic immigration reform myth has been exposed as a total travesty in just the first week of the Minuteman Project. That myth is that it is impossible to stop illegal immigrants from crossing the border with any reasonable amount of additional manpower, that controlling illegal immigration could only be accomplished through new technology still years away from implementation, and that a necessary ingredient is immigration “reform” that would allow most of those entering our nation illegally to just walk across the border with impunity.

Bump

[apackof2]

God Bless the Minutemen!