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Border Patrol orders agents to limit patrol areas The Associated Press -- August 13, 2003 SAN DIEGO Border Patrol agents in California have been ordered to stop making arrests on city streets and avoid questioning suspected illegal immigrants except along the border and at highway checkpoints in Orange and Riverside counties. The directive, outlined in an Aug. 8 memo, is aimed at agents in San Diego County and southern areas of Orange and Riverside counties. It follows protests over recent arrests in San Diego and San Juan Capistrano. Five members of a Mexican family were detained Aug. 1 as they...

Border incident interests citizens' group By Louie Villalobos, Staff Writer Aug 12, 2003 Using the Yuma case of two men arrested for allegedly holding illegal immigrants at gunpoint as its coming-out party, a newly formed citizens' group is promising to sue two Yuma County departments and come to Arizona with an "army" ready to patrol the Mexican border. Keith French, spokesman for the newly incorporated U.S. Special Service, said his Missouri-based organization intends to sue the Yuma County Sheriff's Office and the Yuma County Attorney's Office for what he called the unlawful arrest and detention of Matthew Hoffman and Alexander...

Chaos in Arizona -- Send in the militia By: Jim Moore -- 11/29/02 In case the President and his entourage of political sidekicks haven't read the Constitution lately, I call their attention to several parts of it that are especially relevant for our times. From the U.S. Constitution, Section 8: "Congress shall have power to-provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions." And from the Bill of Rights, Article II:"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and...

County leaders oppose border militia: Tombstone weekly seeks a call to armsBy BILL HESSHerald/Review -- 11/19/02COCHISE COUNTY, Arizona -- The Douglas City Council will be asked today to adopt a resolution to oppose a militia group that has organized with a stated purpose of stemming the flow of illegal immigrants and activity over the U.S.-Mexico border.The organizer of a militia said he will work with other groups of discontented citizens to do the job he says the U.S. government has failed to do.Chris Simcox, owner, publisher and editor of the Tombstone Tumbleweed, said he is using his newspaper to call...