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
First, I missed Saturday's episode, so I can't comment on the PoV competition.
That said, Howie should have put up two of the other alliance's members. Reson being, according to last week's HoH (the one where ppl eliminated others after answering the questions right), James and Sarah were both loyal to the "Soverign 5" based on who they chose to eliminate. Regardless of James or Sarah getting booted, now his alliance is down to 3, he, Rachel, and Janelle (with possibly Kaysar coming back in tonight). Contrast that with the other alliance who now have at least 5 members (Maggie, Ivette, Beau, April, and Jenn) with the posibility of Cappy coming back tonight.
Whichever way you slice it, Howie's team is now going to be in the numerical minority, possibly with a 6-3 defecit, making it much much harder for any of them to make it to the end.
IMO from watching this show for many years, the best thing to do at this point in the game is to keep the numbers in your favor.
Check out http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/TV_Shows/B/BigBrother6/ and click on the BB6 Live Chat icon to the right of the page. This is a great site to find out what happens on the live feeds. FWIW, the guy who runs it agrees with me that Howie was not looking long-term in his nomination decisions this week.
I think it's pretty funny.
What he needs to do is change his to lightning rod because that's what his relentless pandering to illegal aliens has made him.
"....time to move on to tort reform."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1459756/posts
Try to keep up, bayourod.
"Do they call themselves the Minutemen because they only sit in their lawn chairs watching for babysitters for one minute a day?"
We're just getting started!
Are you nuts?
It's about time! Somebody needs to do something!
Bump to the minutemen.....
Nana (for our entire family)
Buffalo Bayou runs through the center of Houston, Texas.
You made his day with that one I'm sure. :)
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