Minuteman: April 2007 First Day
I just got a report of our first day of operations this month:
Robert Anglen
The Arizona Republic
Apr. 1, 2007 04:57 PM
Less than 24 hours after beginning patrols of the U.S.-Mexico border near Nogales, members of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps say they encountered as many as 350 [illegal aliens].
Minuteman president Chris Simcox said Sunday that his group had rescued seven immigrants, found the body of another and led border agents to hundreds of others in the first day of a month-long citizen effort to deter illegal immigration.
"It's a free for all down here," Simcox said, as his radio cracked with reports that eight immigrants had just been sighted near a water tank. "This place is crawling with illegals . . . It's an amnesty rush."
U.S. Border Patrol agents, who do not endorse the citizen effort, confirmed that the Minuteman group was having a busy weekend. One agent said in the first four hours of his shift Sunday morning, he had responded to calls involving as many as 60 illegal [aliens].
"The numbers may be going up because of the weather," U.S. Border Patrol agent Robert Sanchez said. "We're talking about an area west of Nogales to Ajo . . . That's a lot of ground."
This is the third year that the Minuteman volunteers have led its controversial border patrols, which have been criticized by human rights groups as vigilantism. It comes after Border Patrol reports that apprehensions of [illegal aliens] are down sharply compared with previous years.
"Whoever's saying that, they haven't been to Altar Valley," Simcox said.
Robert Anglen
The Arizona Republic
Apr. 1, 2007 04:57 PM
Less than 24 hours after beginning patrols of the U.S.-Mexico border near Nogales, members of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps say they encountered as many as 350 [illegal aliens].
Minuteman president Chris Simcox said Sunday that his group had rescued seven immigrants, found the body of another and led border agents to hundreds of others in the first day of a month-long citizen effort to deter illegal immigration.
"It's a free for all down here," Simcox said, as his radio cracked with reports that eight immigrants had just been sighted near a water tank. "This place is crawling with illegals . . . It's an amnesty rush."
U.S. Border Patrol agents, who do not endorse the citizen effort, confirmed that the Minuteman group was having a busy weekend. One agent said in the first four hours of his shift Sunday morning, he had responded to calls involving as many as 60 illegal [aliens].
"The numbers may be going up because of the weather," U.S. Border Patrol agent Robert Sanchez said. "We're talking about an area west of Nogales to Ajo . . . That's a lot of ground."
This is the third year that the Minuteman volunteers have led its controversial border patrols, which have been criticized by human rights groups as vigilantism. It comes after Border Patrol reports that apprehensions of [illegal aliens] are down sharply compared with previous years.
"Whoever's saying that, they haven't been to Altar Valley," Simcox said.
posted by Calan at 11:28
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Thought you might enjoy this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xDnihTnMbo
As serious as the situation was in reality, I have to say I laughed pretty hard. I'm sure it really wasn't funny at the time though...
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