Posted on 05/03/2006 8:31:36 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Minuteman Project civilian border patrol group planned to kick off a 12-city tour Wednesday to build support for its get-tough border stance in the wake of pro-immigant rallies around the country.
Organizers said they will use the caravan, which is scheduled to finish on Capitol Hill, to mobilize voters and recruit members. The group is made up of volunteers who patrol the border and strongly oppose illegal immigration.
The group hopes to counter the impact made by the more than 1 million illegal immigrants and their supporters who took to the nation's streets earlier this week. Project officials acknowledged, however, that they would have a hard time mustering the same kind of numbers for a rally of their own. Demonstrations by the Minuteman Project on Monday were scattered and small, often numbering fewer than 100 people per city.
"Our power is not putting a million people on the street, our power is putting 10 million people at the voting box," said Stephen Eichler, the group's executive director. "Their voice is accompanied by a lot of bodies, but our voice is accompanied by even more bodies who aren't going to go out in the street."
The caravan is scheduled to leave from Los Angeles and arrive on Capitol Hill for a May 12 rally as senators rush to pass an immigration reform bill before a Memorial Day deadline set by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.
Federal lawmakers must then reconcile the Senate bill - which will likely include a guest worker program and a potential path to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants - with a House bill that would criminalize them.
The caravan will include about 100 staff members and supporters, said Eichler. It will stop in President Bush's vacation haven of Crawford, Texas, as well as in Phoenix, Ariz.; Albuquerque, N.M.; Abilene, Texas; Little Rock, Ark.; Memphis and Nashville, Tenn.; Montgomery, Ala.; Atlanta; and Richmond, Va.
One supporter, Penny Magnotto of Upland, Calif., said she and a friend were planning to follow the caravan in their RV and visit seven additional states on their return to recruit more members.
"If one in 100 people that we meet up with kind of get it and see that we're nice family people I will be thrilled," said Magnotto, founder of the Minuteman spin-off Minutewomen on the Road.
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I am sure the AP will send reporters to cover this.
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Hot Air Bump!!!
Bumping the link. Thank you Ernest.
Revealing pics from the San Diego May 1st protest the MSM and our politicians are not showing ^
It's not just the GOP that will lose. All of the U.S. will be destroyed when the anchor babies that are being indoctrinated into the world of Aztlan and socialism start voting.
my friend at LAPD pointed me to some KABC video of the MacArthur Park incident
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=4135443#
Thank you!
I don't get it.
One would expect that printing the riots would sell more papers than covering them up. Or isn't selling papers the essential aim of the publishers anymore? (Sarc.)
"The caravan is scheduled to leave from Los Angeles and arrive on Capitol Hill for a May 12 rally as senators rush to pass an immigration reform bill before a Memorial Day deadline set by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn."
Very reassuring to know we are considered to be a project done only while in a, "RUSH". This is why we NEED the Minutemen.
God Bless The Minutemen. We Love You...
God Bless The Minutemen. We Love You...
God Bless The Minutemen. We Love You...
God Bless The Minutemen. We Love You...
Thanks.....
5 out of 7 members of the Herndon, Virginia City Council including the mayor lost their seats yesterday, largely due to their votes last fall to create an illegal alien "day laborer center".
Pols beware: continue the pandering to illegals and we will eject you from office no matter what your party.
Heraldo Rivera was the same way.... He actually threatened that there would be trouble if Americans treated illegals as anything less than "Honored guests". He also ranted about "$50 bunches of bananas" and "$10 avacados".
Of course this is the sam Heraldo Rivera which has been ridiculed his entire adult life as being a dramatist putz.
"Geraldo" Rivera.
born "Jerry Rivers"
I don't know if he is any more "latino" than John F'n Kerry is "irish"
As much sense as this rhetoric makes, just imagine a 'Democrat majority' - talk about going from bad to worse!
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