Minutemen Stepping It Up
Minutemen step up Mexican border patrol
A U.S. militia group will launch a month-long sweep for illegal immigrants along the border with Mexico this weekend, stepping up a campaign that has raised fears of violence.
Volunteers plan to gather at seven sites between San Diego, California, and Brownsville, Texas, throughout October to scour the deserts for illegal immigrants and report them to the U.S. Border Patrol so they can be arrested.
Now, for the first time, the Minutemen are taking their protest to all four U.S. states along the porous 2,000-mile border with Mexico beginning on Saturday.
“It is being very tightly controlled this time because the opposition has blatantly said that they are going to direct violence at our volunteers,” Minuteman founder Chris Simcox told Reuters in a telephone interview.
“Our patrols will be held on private ranch land … Our volunteers have been well-trained and know how to deal with protesters if they do get near us and will report them to local law enforcement,” he added.
“We will be going home when the government sends troops or the National Guard to secure the border,” Simcox said. “Until then, the patrols will continue.”
In the beginning people were fearful of the violence the Minutemen would use against the illegals – - and that was riduclous. However, there does seem to be some violence to be feared and that is coming from the opposition and protestors against the Minutemen. Pathetic.
I, personally, think this group is necessary and believe they are doing a helluva job – - And as the head of the project said – - when the government steps in and does what needs to be done then they’ll all go home.
Hear that Washington?
October 1, 2005 - 05:21 PM on October 1st, 2005
in other words hang some of the treachery rats in washington and live in freedom and real justice
ops: just call me “Bin Fred” i have the rope do you have the tree:?:
October 1, 2005 - 07:59 PM on October 1st, 2005
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nly my comment on this subject, how sad but it shows me where the people are in this mind dead nation, keep standing up for mexico and your kids will pay the cost of your non ideals, long live the minutement and the ideals of freedom and laws that mean something.
sad,sad, world, will check in 6 hrs, say something:mad:
October 1, 2005 - 08:30 PM on October 1st, 2005
You know I agree with you on this Reilly! Do the right thing and cover our borders!
October 1, 2005 - 10:46 PM on October 1st, 2005
I wish the minutemen the absolute best of luck and god speed. The ACLU gang was down there harassing them the last time they patrolled the AZ border. It didn’t stop them, but some ACLU attornies got caught on video toking on a joint. What is wrong with this picture? The media portrays people obeying and helping enforce the law as scum while the law breaking ACLU twits are written up as heroes.
I hope to God that there isn’t any violence down there, because I KNOW that the press will try to claim that the Minutemen propagated it. If the truth be told, there have been a number of threats of violence against the Minutemen. Last April when the Minutemen first patrolled the AZ border, they received such a credible threat that one of the volunteers handed a local radio reporter a 357 magnum and a bunch of shels and told him to keep them with him just in case. The reporter actually took the pistol and kept it with him for the duration of his stay at the site. My main concern is that the drug and human smugglers are becoming much more brazen and in a country where firearms are essentially banned they are extremely well armed. Increasingly so with weapons that are either extremely regulated or outright illegal here. Combine that with the fact that the Minutemen are either unarmed or armed only with handguns, and any assault by the Mexican criminals would face very limited resistance and end in a blood bath with the criminals jumping back across the border to the safety of Mexico.
October 2, 2005 - 02:15 PM on October 2nd, 2005
A real good way to stop this illegal imagration and a possible invasion by al queda terrorists or drag traffickers its time to step it up:lol:
October 3, 2005 - 03:17 PM on October 3rd, 2005
i still find it hard to beleive that dubya referred to the minutemen as “vigilantes”? i would call them patriots!
October 3, 2005 - 03:22 PM on October 3rd, 2005
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nly two others said anything about this news, how sad but how insane when your country is being dismantled in front of you:sad:
It will come down to a few of us fighting for our once great nation and its flag of freedom and justice and when we are all dead and being called evil little “racists”,( by the way some will be black and hispanics to fighting for your freedom as it always has been) you will be next, sad,sad, end to the great idea of freedom:cry: