[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.

[fullchroma]

Bump from a grateful Arizona native.

[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.

[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.

[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!

[ChildOfThe60s]

But Mexican President Vincente Fox has directly referred to the Minutemen as “vigilantes.” An interesting statement from a President with troops under his command who consistently violate our border. He obviously doesn’t mind taking our law into his hands, he just has a problem with us doing the same with our own law.

Ba da Bing! Hole in one. If FOX doesn't like it, we are doing something right. Well said.

I just wish the word "immigration" would be removed from these discussions. It ain't immigration. Period. IT IS FOREIGN CITIZENS ILLEGALLY CROSSING THE BORDER INTO OUR COUNTRY.

Apparently this concept is akin to quantum physics for liberals.

[potlatch]

Ping for Minute Man success!

[Mr Cobol]

I'd love to see a motto for the 'vigilantes' that said;

Back off GWB, we got our border!! You worry about the Iraq border.

[djf]

Whenever somebody starts screaming "vigilantes" I remind them that the word comes from the word VIGILANT.

What the hey is wrong with being vigilant?

[nothingnew]

Vincente Fox has directly referred to the Minutemen as “vigilantes.” An interesting statement from a President with troops under his command who consistently violate our border. He obviously doesn’t mind taking our law into his hands, he just has a problem with us doing the same with our own law.

I'm glad that the "Minutemen" are making a mark on this invasion....But mark my words, they will end up villified when one illegal ends up dead, by any means, under their "scrutiny". This Republic is now in the hands of "good cop/bad cop" to the extreme.

Dems=Heart attack

Pubs=cancer

I have updated my FMCDH (From My Cold Dead Hands) sign-off with the addition of (BITS).....Blood In The Streets, which I foresee coming soon, due to the enormous increase of the Marxist progressive movement being shoved down the throat of this failing REPUBLIC through the Judicial tyranny of fiat law, the passing of unconstitutional laws by the Legislative and Executive branches of our government and the enormous tax burden placed upon the average American to support unconstitutional programs put forth by Marxist ideology.

I do not advocate revolution. I just see what is coming.

FMCDH(BITS)

[afnamvet]

Thanks for all you and the MMP are doing to bring this issue of porous borders to the forefront.

[StoneGiant]

Great article.. Thanks!

[djreece]

Great post. Thank you. Maybe our prayers and pleas for real border enforcement are finally going to be answered.

This part was hilarious:

Their official stance is that the Minutemen Project has had little or no effect, and was timed by its volunteer organizers to try to claim success for the efforts of the Border Patrol. A fascinating position when you think about it – a reverse conspiracy theory, in which federal bureaucrats suspect citizens of designing sophisticated plots against them.

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

These folks are all heros in my book. The very first and ONLY thing to do before worrying what to do with the 16 million illegals already here is to seal off the border. Fortify the whole thing so that manpower can be concentrated on controlled access points. Every nation on Earth does the same...well except for a few lucky ones like New Zealand and Australia who have shark infested oceans as a border.