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Quoted message said:http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1042489,00.html
Monday, Apr. 04, 2005
Less than 10 miles from the Mexican border, a vacant lot in Sierra Vista,
Ariz., looks like a trash dump. Between the chaparral and scrub oaks are
backpacks, sweatshirts, jeans, sneakers, used toilet paper and water
bottles
Quoted message said:filled with urine. Chris Simcox, a small-town newspaper owner, flips
through
Quoted message said:a book he picked out of the refuse titled Aprenda Ingles sin Maestro
(Learn
Quoted message said:English Without a Teacher), shakes his head and says, "Welcome to the
invasion."
More than 500,000 illegal aliens were caught last year in southern Arizona
alone, accounting for 52% of all undocumented migrants detained in the
U.S.
Quoted message said:in 2004. But Simcox, fed up with what he sees as government inaction in
the
Quoted message said:face of lawlessness and a threat to national security, plans to do
something
Quoted message said:about it. As head of a two-year-old group called the Civil Homeland
Defense
Quoted message said:Corps, he is spearheading a new Minuteman Project that will place
volunteers
Quoted message said:at quarter-mile intervals to watch a busy 50-mile stretch of border for
the
Quoted message said:entire month of April. The goal, he says, is not to confront migrants but
to
Quoted message said:monitor and report their locations to the U.S. Border Patrol.
The movement has aroused fears of vigilantism. Mexican President Vicente
Fox
Quoted message said:has called groups like Simcox's "immigrant hunters," and President Bush
said
Quoted message said:last week, "I'm against vigilantes." Jennifer Allen of the Border Action
Network says she is preparing a human-rights complaint against the U.S.
government for "failing to prosecute vigilante groups." Local officials in
Arizona are nervous about hundreds of Minuteman volunteers coming from out
of state, and Michael Nicely, head of the Border Patrol's Tucson sector,
says the Minuteman Project will "hamper border safety."Simcox bristles at the term vigilante, saying that his group is not
detaining anyone but only fulfilling the President's post--Sept. 11
request
Quoted message said:that all Americans remain vigilant--and, in the process, providing a
release
Quoted message said:valve for popular outrage. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials,
meanwhile, tell TIME they will announce a "significant increase in
resources" this week to address the influx of illegal immigrants still
crossing by land in Arizona. --By Brian BennettFrom the Apr. 04, 2005 issue of TIME magazine
Support this effort, border parks being destroyed by illegals:
http://www.minutemanproject.com/
Hank
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