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 were 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 Lozanos 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 were 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 well have a line from Baffin Bay to Laredo and beyond.
Border Patrol spokesman Roy Cervantes would not comment about the Minutemens operations in Texas.
sicalderon@brownsvilleherald.com
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain". I never heard of Buchanon until I met the "swampstick". I and 90% of American's are totally NOT into illegal immigration. I've had my arguments with him too and still can't quite figure out the agenda. Best I can figure is he owns rental houses and hires "day workers". I think he's from Houston (where crime rate is way more than the national average, google it). Don't waste your time, you have better things to do. He's been suspended time after time and yet, always makes it back. A worthless investment of time.
That's not the first time I've heard "swamp stick." My guess is that "bayou" means he's near the Texas, Louisiana border and "rod" is short for "Rodriquez." I'm from southeast Louisiana and I had a coach in high school we called "Coach Rod" and his name was "Rodriquez."
How 'bout that swamp stick? Your last name "Rodriquez"? That would explain a lot.
$5,000 per border bunny? 18 million per year?
You are delusional. You need a double layer of straitjackets and long term rubber room therapy.
Unitll now I still believed you were merely a typical pinhead.
Substitute your own figures and the conclusions are the same. While you're at it add in the profits from smuggling drugs across the border and then follow the money trail.
Before you go would you please deal with the MS13 grafitti on the fence down the street left by your amigos. You might not make it back and I need it painted over now.
Your #50
Hey Dude, you need to get some help man. I'm series dude. You need to get off the drugs man. Just read your comment on #50. Like "wow", man. You know we're behind you dude, but that's a real stretch.
Then your hypotheticals should walk down the road of reality. You might even be subject to being cause for thought.
and it's on the side of Tancredo, not Bush.
There you go again...
That's funny! I got "swampstick" from someone who private mailed me. But it sounds totally appropriate.
You could be right but I'm almost assured that "swampstick" is from Houston. He's posted items from there. Is that anywhere near the great state of Lousiana? I don't think so. Shall we ask him?
"Bayourod, it appears as though you have an obsessive-compulsive
fixation on Buchanan and Tancredo. Now, explain to me again who
these "Antis" are that you've been having so many nightmares about."
More American-bashing by bayourod. You are a despicable human being.
I have family in the Houston area and it's not a far drive over the border; Lake Charles, Beaumont, Baytown...
What?! Lake Charles? Please don't tell me bayourod is from anywhere near there! My stepdad's family is from Jennings. He is from very decent people and not in any way related to bayourod. :^)
??? I think you were addressing the wrong person. I was asking the little body of water that is just a little bigger than a stream and is only 16.5 linear feet long to go help the MM. I am sure he is so tough that a little heat won't hurt him.
Are you claiming that President Bush is in no way shape or form ever influenced by money or special interests?
'rod said in an earlier thread a while back that he doesn't have any hispanic friends nor is he kin to anyone who is hispanic. I surmise that he just prefers them, legal or illegal, to be the "worker bees" in the hive that is the U.S. Further, he said that my family (with its pre-statehood Texas residency, numerous military veterans, etc., is no different than illegal Mexicans).
Any thoughts on who is coming back, and who is going tonight?
I'm reasonably sure that Sarah is a goner, though Howie is a f#$%ing moron to put her and James up this week. This will go down in history as the 2nd dumbest move in BB history, right behind stupid Marcellas declining to use the golden POV on himself and getting booted immediately thereafter.
If I were a betting man, I'd wager that Kaysar is coming back in tonight, though the way the show has been talking up Eric for the last week, you never know. I'll vomit if he returns.
I personally voted for Michael to come back, as I thought he got unfairly screwed week 2.
The award for the moronic move of the game goes to those involved in the pov competition. Duh, folks, load up James.
I'm not sure that I follow. Who should Howie have put up? The moronic move to me was, if the group wanted James gone so bad, why did it not occur to them to load up James and Sarah's pinatas?
Minutemen BUMP.
Just doing the work the federal government refuses to do.
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