Posted on 04/03/2007 11:22:41 AM PDT by TheBethsterNH
WPTZ.com Minutemen To Patrol N.H.-Canadian Border Group Says It Only Has Number To Patrol On Weekends
POSTED: 11:26 am EDT April 3, 2007
PITTSBURG, N.H. -- A group that has patrolled for illegal immigrants along the nation's borders with Mexico and parts of Canada is planning extended operations this month in New Hampshire.
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps wants to patrol starting this weekend, but it needs more volunteers and contributions, organizers said.
Volunteer Marty Hewson, of Pittsburg, is a retired border patrolman who worked in Texas and Vermont. When he was contacted by the group's state chapter, he agreed to help.
"I'm used to line watching," he said. "I can't say as we see very many people, but we're in a spot where there is a possibility. It's just like my old duty when I was in the Border Patrol."
Ron Oplinus, director of the state chapter, said the Minutemen do not welcome vigilantes or racists, although some members carry guns, which they are instructed to keep holstered. Participants are instructed to bring hiking-type equipment: binoculars, flashlights, cameras, lawn chairs, comfortable and warm clothing, rain gear and food.
The state chapter was established a year ago and has 36 members who have visited the Canadian border to "establish an operating post," he said. Some of them have also trained and patrolled with chapters in the Southwest, he said.
If members see anything suspicious, they are supposed to report it to the Border Patrol, he said.
"There are several thousand people coming across the New England border with Vermont, New York, New Hampshire and Maine," he said. "One of the neighbors near where we are says she sees the Border Patrol coming by any time of the day or night and she sees the search lights. There are a lot of sensors embedded in the ground, so they know when there is a lot of activity."
The national group recently named April and October as month-long events, but the New Hampshire chapter only has the resources to operate on weekends, Oplinus said.
The group had hoped to go out last weekend, but snow, rain and mud made it too difficult for them to reach their staging area, both men said.
Oplinus said the group is trying to combat a stereotype that they are gun-toting racists. They are just ordinary citizens concerned that the government is not doing enough to combat illegal immigration, he said.
"People nationally are very concerned about the illegal immigration problem, or invasion, as I call it -- and that's indeed what is happening: We are being invaded by people from throughout the world," he said. "It's all ethnicities. It's all countries. The southern border has apprehended people from all countries. It's not just poor Mexicans coming in to do the work that we choose not to do -- it's not that at all."
Rejoice, citizens of Candia!
Maybe they should patrol the Vermont-Canada border. Vermont is likely to be very attractive to Canadians. It’s almostas socialist.
Gotta stop those frostbacks from sneaking in...
Take off, hoser!
No, they should patrol the Vermont-New Hampshire border.
SAome Vermonters want to secede anyway.
Bring parkas, and bug spray, and wading boots....
Mud season is a site to behold in NH.
At least Canadian illegals don’t require everyone to learn a new language to accommodate them, eh?
No kidding about VT and Maine too, there are several places over the years (especially in VT) where i have been hiking or on 4 x 4 paths and slipped accidentally across the border, once as far as 5 miles into Canada...NOBODY stopped me either way...it is a problem. Hope their numbers up here grow so they can stretch to areas in VT and ME at some point.
My husband knew someone who grew up right near the Maine border—I can’t remember the name of the town—and this person would go hunting in Maine all the time. I don’t know if it was on purpose or an accident.
It would be helpful if U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe (RINOS-ME) would slip across the border into Canada and never come back.
From the article——
“The group had hoped to go out last weekend, but snow, rain and mud made it too difficult for them to reach their staging area, both men said. “
Classic. These guys ain’t gonna catch nothing but a buzz.
Eh?...LOL...typonese today is real bad
Mud season, then bug season...but those thorny stemmed wild blackberries that grow quite abundantly in the Northeast Kingdom make great natural razor-wire.
Anything to ensure that middle-aged men in speedos don’t make it to Florida.
O Candia!
Those of us who voted for Harper would consider that an act of war ;-)
You bet your sweet keester you do. They may look innocent enough, but you really do not want them, particularly the ones just north of Vermont. God love the Minutemen.
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