Idle hands are the devil's work. Bush better get those construction workers back in jobs but maybe that won't work - Jesus was a carpenter and look at all the gubbment trouble that construction worker caused!!
US citizens versus the Mexican Military - Remember the Alamo!
reuters.com
Immigrant Spotters Rally on U.S.-Mexico Border
Sat Apr 2, 2005 09:16 PM ET
By Tim Gaynor
NACO, Arizona (Reuters) - Scores of volunteers waving flags and chanting "Close Our Borders" rallied in Arizona on Saturday, kicking off a month of "citizens' patrols" against illegal immigration across the Mexican border.
Some 150 protesters from the Minuteman Project demonstrated outside the U.S. Border Patrol in the town of Naco, at what they say is the federal government's failure to stem the flow of undocumented immigrants.
"We want the government to secure the border which is right now uncontrolled," Pennsylvania hotel operator Greg Sheehan said as he joined volunteers mustering in cars and trucks for the curbside rally.
Organizers of the Minuteman Project, which takes its name from American Revolution militia, say 1,200 volunteers will stake out a 20-mile stretch of the border with Mexico throughout April, and report illegal aliens to the Border Patrol.
Retirees, construction workers and housewives from as far apart as California and Maryland took part in the protest.
"I feel that I've found my calling here in Arizona. We don't need more people coming over here and claiming welfare, and we have to take action ourselves to prevent it," said housewife Vivian Schenck, 63, who drove from Corona, California, to camp out on the border with her retired husband.
Millions of Mexicans work illegally in the United States, often in manual jobs in the manufacturing or service sectors.
Border Patrol agents nabbed nearly 560,000 illegal immigrants on Arizona's border with Mexico last fiscal year, more than in any other state. Still more die in the scorching desert heat -- 180 people last fiscal year.
IMMIGRANT SPOTTERS
The volunteers will sit in groups along the gullies and flats of the cactus-strewn border around Naco, spotting migrants through binoculars and night vision goggles in what they say will be a peaceful protest.
But some are armed with pistols. President Bush calls them vigilantes and the Mexican government has warned it would file civil suits against any who lay a finger on Mexican nationals during the month-long vigil.
The volunteers, some of whom sipped beer in bright spring sunshine in pick-up trucks, are not popular with all residents in southern Arizona, which has a large Latino population. We already lost Arizona?
Several cars with local plates drove by tooting their horns, the occupants calling out at the volunteers to "go back to California" and "take your protest elsewhere."
The local Border Patrol in Arizona say the unofficial frontier guardians are not welcome, even though they profess support for the patrol's work.
"They should leave border protection to professional agents who know what they are doing," Tucson sector Border Patrol spokesman Jose Garza said.
He warned the volunteers would tie up resources of the agency in the border's busiest sector, and run the risk of confrontation with increasingly violent traffickers of drugs and people from Mexico.
"More and more agents have been getting attacked here in the past year, and we are very concerned that someone might get hurt," he added.
Someone will get hurt probably, that is the nature of how these things play out no? Last year when I went to mexico a white woman hobo told me the churches in arizona and the soup kitchens would not help her no matter her SOB story, she had to leave arizona or starve to death. When I crossed the border most of the US Workers at the border patrol were Latin with very heavy accents - my friend asked me what was thier incentive from keeping pedro from coming over illegally?
Buffet said our consumption will be limited by our production, if we don't manufacture much anymore, will daddy take the t-bird away?
newsmax.com
Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:37 a.m. EST
Mexican Military on Standby in Response to Minutemen
Mexico's President Vicente Fox is preparing to respond militarily to a group of U.S volunteers who plan to patrol the U.S.-Mexican border starting tomorrow, positioning more than a thousand troops nearby, according to an Arizona TV station.
'The Mexican military is on standby,' reports NBC's Tucson affiliate KVOA. 'One unit has about a thousand soldiers. They're located just across the border.'
Over the last week spokesmen for the border patrol volunteers, who dub themselves Minutemen, have said they will not attempt to detain Mexican illegals, but rather report them to the Border Patrol and track them till they're apprehended.
Despite the assurances, Mexican officials met with the mayor of Douglas, Ariz., on Tuesday to discuss how they will handle potential violence, KVOA said.
Last week President Fox warned at a Mexico City press conference:
'We totally reject the idea of these migrant-hunting groups. We will use the law, international law and even U.S. law to make sure these types of groups, which are a minority, will not have any opportunity to progress.'
Huh? Legal US citizens trying to enforce the LEGAL laws of the USA by reporting ILLEGALS to the proper authorities like Joze Garza to be challenged by mexico's military - my eyes are rolling with confusion!
I remember watching the movie GANGS of NEW YORK - they didn't seem to like all the immigrants coming in to the city from what the movie showed. |
