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The national leader of a citizens' border watch group said his Texas point man resigned this week for personal reasons, not because group members are outlaw-prone racists. But in a resignation letter e-mailed this week, Bill Parmley wrote about disagreements and confusion among the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps groups in Texas that he was overseeing and racism in the ranks of the Goliad chapter. Parmley quit his post as director of the fledgling Texas chapters, locally based versions of the Arizona group that held a headline-grabbing border watch mission in April. Since then, the two leaders who organized the original...

The president of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps of Texas resigned by e-mail late Monday evening, criticizing a lack of structure in the group and claiming racist undertones in the Goliad-area chapter. "The Sarco group has chosen to go a different course than what I feel is in the best interest of the organization nationally and locally," Bill Parmley of the small community near Goliad wrote in the letter e-mailed late Monday night to Chris Simcox, national president of the Arizona-based Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, and Goliad County Sheriff Robert DeLaGarza. The Advocate obtained a copy of the letter late...