In Arizona, a group calling itself the Minuteman Project has stationed
scores of men and women along the Mexican border in a controversial effort
to track down undocumented immigrants. The Minutmen take their name from a
militia group during the American Revolutionary War.
The group's founder, James Gilchrist, says the project has attracted some
450 volunteers from around the country. On Monday, Gilchirst said they aided
in the arrest of 146 undocumented immigrants.
The Minutemen have staked out across a 23-mile stretch of border northeast
of Nogales for the month-long action. Many use binoculars and night-vision
goggles. Some are armed with guns. Over 20 pilots with aircraft are also
surveying the area.
Organizers call their effort a peaceful protest over the government's
failure to secure its borders. Both the Mexican government and the Bush
administration have described them the Minutemen as vigilantes. Meanwhile,
the American Civil Liberties Union has sent observers to keep tabs on the
Minutemen to ensure they don't take the law into their own hands.
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| User: "Fredrick Garvin" |
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| Title: Re: Rednecks Guarding American Borders |
07 Apr 2005 05:32:50 AM |
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On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 22:51:26 -0400, MonsieurStat expelled the following:
In Arizona, a group calling itself the Minuteman Project has stationed
scores of men and women along the Mexican border in a controversial effort
to track down undocumented immigrants.
Good. About time someone did something.
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Rednecks Guarding American Borders |
07 Apr 2005 10:17:35 PM |
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I'm sure that the ACLU will get a court order which would order the
Minuteman Project to stand down and disperse or face arrest.
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| User: "Perseid" |
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| Title: Re: Rednecks Guarding American Borders |
07 Apr 2005 10:20:02 PM |
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Spat the Words
I'm sure that the ACLU will get a court order which would order the
Minuteman Project to stand down and disperse or face arrest.
More likely it'll come by executive order of Bush himself.
It makes him look bad that the borders aren't being properly
protected and he hasn't allocated enough to border patrol
budgets (yet he still manages extravagant dinner partys...
amazing).
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| User: "Fredrick Garvin" |
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| Title: Re: Rednecks Guarding American Borders |
08 Apr 2005 05:21:28 AM |
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On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:20:02 -0500, Perseid expelled the following:
anticorpoutlaw@msn.com Spat the Words
I'm sure that the ACLU will get a court order which would order the
Minuteman Project to stand down and disperse or face arrest.
More likely it'll come by executive order of Bush himself. It makes him
look bad that the borders aren't being properly protected and he hasn't
allocated enough to border patrol budgets (yet he still manages
extravagant dinner partys... amazing).
If they were properly protected they wouldn't need the Minutemen project....
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| User: "EMD" |
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| Title: Re: Rednecks Guarding American Borders |
07 Apr 2005 02:36:16 AM |
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This is one time bomb that could be prevented.....yet nobody is
doing anything to stop it.....
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