Posted on 08/10/2005 7:34:16 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Group remains unsure of plans for Brownsville
FALFURRIAS — The Minutemen have arrived in South Texas but major operations are still not expected to start until October, group officials said Tuesday.
About 20 members of the civilian border patrol group met here last weekend to develop strategies to halt illegal immigration in Brooks and Jim Hogg counties.
The group remains unsure whether it plans to patrol near Brownsville.
“Right now we are in our reconnaissance and planning stage,” said Minutemen organizer and local ranch owner Michael Vickers. “We are getting our communication equipment together and we’re getting our maps ready.”
Vickers said the South Texas group is between 50 and 100 strong – but growing. He expects 150 people deployed here the first weekend in October and 400 to 500 the second weekend.
The weekend began with an orientation at Vickers’ ranch and 50-mile tour of pick-up and drop-off points and pathways for illegal immigration, he said.
Brooks County Sheriff Balde Lozano said he has not been contacted by either the Minutemen or the ranchers who want to work with them.
He said the Minutemen would encounter a much different climate in Falfurrias where his department has its “hands full” with illegal immigration.
Among Lozano’s concerns were conflicts with the Minutemen patrolling near privately owned lands, encountering armed passersby during hunting season and dealing with criminal activity along the border.
Vickers acknowledged the dangerous elements in Falfurrias but maintained that his group would end illegal immigration here.
“There is no question that we’re going to shut this traffic down,” he said. “This weekend volunteers will be deployed in the Falfur-rias area to test communication equipment.”
He said most people at the weekend meeting were not from the area.
“Volunteers will be deployed before, during and even after October,” he said, “because the aim of the Minutemen is to impact the big picture.
“Eventually … we’ll have a line from Baffin Bay to Laredo and beyond.”
Border Patrol spokesman Roy Cervantes would not comment about the Minutemen’s operations in Texas.
sicalderon@brownsvilleherald.com
LOL! I know......"sometimes you feel like a nut....sometimes you don't"...but I just always am! : )
There's talk all OVER this forum, in a LOT of subjects regarding being disgusted with RINO's.
Tancredo threw aside the PC that we ALL, I believe you included, are sick & tired of. PC WILL be the death of this nation if we don't all grow a backbone and tell it like it is.
The rest of your post to me? Shakin' my head.
I have to go get some stuff done, so no, I'm not ignoring you if you post...I'll BBL.
I'm glad. But you were criticizing this group largely made up of veterans for the conditions you claim they work in. I'm still curious as to what the worst conditions you faced during your military career were.
Actually they're watching for your buddies, the illegal alien lawbreakers.
We don't have uncontrolled immigration.
How about uncontrolled question dodgers?
I see your ignorance is showing again DUmmie. Why don't you go back to DU land where you belong.
It wasn't until Prohibition was passed that Congress established a Border Patrol to keep booze out. (I guess you would call it an "invasion" of Tequila.)
If you can only justify your position by blatantly distorting the meaning of the Constitution you must not have any good reasons for being a Minuteman.
Invasion of fire ants, invasion of mini skirts, invasion of killer bees, invasion of Italian shoes, invasion of hip huggers, invasion of British sitcoms, invasion of French wines, invasion of Irish steppers, invasion of Russian caviar.....
You forgot the British invasion of the 60's my man. And you still haven't answered my previous question. If you're not interested in answering it, just say so.
Well if you want to go back that far, add the invasion of the Japanese beetle.
We don't have uncontrolled immigration and I don't support it.
We have foreign workers being sucked into the United States by our economic furnace. It doesn't suck refugees, elderly family members and others wishing to immigrate here to start a new life. When the furnace burns down the workers will no longer come, but the immigrants will.
Alrighty then; something to work with.
So you would agree that unrestricted/uncontrolled immigration would not be a good thing for America?
We'll just take this a step at at time...
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handful of elderly grumps who will sit in lawn chairs
The Border Patrol are a joke. But if you want to believe that they have solved the border problem go right ahead.
Minutemen Heros BUMP.
Close the borders NOW.
We have uncontrolled immigration
Too right. The only controlled immigration is over those who chose to abide by the laws of the U.S.A. All Rod's friends are the uncontrolled hords streaming across, seemingly at will, until patriots like the Minutemen put a dent in the flow. No, they haven't stopped it. Yes, they've slowed it down and, as important, drawn much needed attention to the problem so that our so-called leaders might want to save their phony-baloney jobs by doing something about it.
Actually they're illegal alien lawbreakers.
You are right. I would put your buddies in the same group as fire ants and killer bees.
What do you call it if a foreign country is sending its people into this country? The Constitution is to defend against enemies foreign and domestic, but you knew that didn't you.
Actually, I am in your debt. I never realized that people like you existed. I did not know things were as bad as they have gotten. Thank you again.
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