Re: [NewPacifica] Minutemen building Ariz. border fence



I don't think I've witnessed a more disgusting group
then these minnie-men since the KKK and the white
citizens council. 

--- Kevin White <cuitlacoche1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   To think that the US Senate is in colusion with a
> group of brownshirts like this.
>    
>   K
>    
>    Minutemen building Ariz. border fence 
>         By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN, Associated Press
> Writer 51 minutes ago 
>    
>   
> 
>   Scores of volunteers gathered at a remote ranch
> Saturday to help a civilian border-patrol group
> start building a short security fence in hopes of
> reducing illegal immigration from Mexico.
>    
>   The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps plans to install
> a combination of barbed wire, razor wire, and in
> some spots, steel rail barriers along the 10-mile
> stretch of private land in southeastern Arizona.
>    
>   They hope it prompts the federal government to do
> the same along the entire Arizona border.
>    
>   President Bush has pledged to deploy as many as
> 6,000 National Guard troops to strengthen
> enforcement at the border. The guardsmen would fill
> in on some behind-the-lines Border Patrol jobs while
> that agency's force is expanded.
>    
>   But the Minutemen have said it's not enough. The
> group's founder, Chris Simcox, said they want a
> secure fence and they're starting at the site where
> his first patrols began in November 2002.
>    
>   Rancher John Ladd and his son, Jack, were hopeful
> the effort would limit the illegal immigrants and
> drug runners who have cut the small fence along the
> property or just driven over it to cross into the
> U.S.
>    
>   "We've been fighting this thing for 10 years with
> the fence, and nobody will do anything," Jack Ladd
> said.
>    
>   Most of the day was dedicated to speeches from
> politicians and Minutemen leaders and celebrating
> large donations the Minutemen group has been
> receiving. As of midweek, the group had raised about
> $225,000 for fence materials and signed up about
> 1,000 volunteers to work on the project, organizers
> said.
>    
>   "We're not going to stop. We're going to stay here
> with a group and keep building," said Timothy
> Schwartz of Glendale, Ariz., who was among at least
> 200 volunteers gathered. He said he wants a fence
> along the border from California to Texas.
>    
>   Quetzal Doty of Sun Lakes, Ariz., a retired U.S.
> diplomatic consular officer, brought his wife,
> Sandy, to the event.
>    
>   He said he's convinced the Minutemen and most
> Americans aren't anti-immigrant.
>   "They're just anti-illegal," said Doty. "The
> Minutemen walk the extra mile to avoid being
> anti-immigrant and that's what we like about the
> organization and what got us interested."
>   
>   
> 
> 
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