[SC33]

I really like this idea. How does this affect the California Border Police initiative? www.calborderpolice.com

[CedarDave]

Surprise, surprise. The Minutemen are bringing some refreshing statements from the bureaucrats. Lets see if any of this translates into action.

[John Lenin]

I think this is what Goerge Bush I was talking about in his " Thousnad Points of Light " speech.

We don't need no steenk'in government program to patrol the border !

[mdittmar]

Volunteers would need training and be organized "in a way that would be something akin to a Border Patrol auxiliary," he said. "We value having eyes and ears of citizens and I think that would be one of the things we are looking at is how you better organize, let's say, a citizen effort."

Ping

[EagleUSA]

This is such a tragedy to watch -- Washington continues to fiddle while America burns....disgusting.

[B4Ranch]

I am wondering if Chris Simcox and Jim Gilchrist are being consulted for their views?

[HiJinx]

"All proposals are being considered, including clerical work by volunteers that would free up more agents to secure our borders," (CBP Spokeswoman Kristi) Clemens said.

Last sentence. Should be all you need to know. Oh, and that Secretary Chertoff has not been part of these discussions.

[LNewman]

Bookmarking.

[Serenissima Venezia]

About time the MMP gets some positive responses from the powers that be. Except for the crap about doing clerical work.

[dljordan]

They're trying to co-opt the movement and get it under their control so they can make it as in-effective as the current Border control system.

[CedarDave]

Didn't take long for the Washington pro-illegal ailen bureaucracy to shoot down this idea:

Homeland Security backs off idea of civilian border patrol