Border 'Vigilantes' Pledge to Return

[chlamor]

Border 'Vigilantes' Pledge to Return

Bill Berkowitz

An armed private group that patrolled the U.S.-Mexican border last month has gone home with an unequivocal endorsement from California Governor Arnold Shwarzenegger and benign media coverage. Come October, they say, they will return to the border in the tens of thousands.

OAKLAND, USA, May 4 (IPS) - An armed private group that patrolled the U.S.-Mexican border last month has gone home with an unequivocal endorsement from California Governor Arnold Shwarzenegger and benign media coverage. Come October, they say, they will return to the border in the tens of thousands.

The Minuteman Project, a network of groups and individuals, many of them armed, deployed some 900 volunteers to watch for undocumented migrants along a 20-mile (32-kilometre) stretch of the border separating the U.S. and Mexican states of Arizona and Sonora. Organizers had said that 1,600-plus ''mad-as-hell volunteers'' had signed up for the month-long vigil.

''We have proven that ordinary citizens sitting in lawn chairs on the border can shut down illegal border traffic,'' the group said in a statement. ''We will not stop; we will not be deterred. We will continue to secure our borders until relieved by our military and National Guard.''

http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=28559

[all.of.me]

1. i guess nobody crosses the border in summer......

[tyedyeto]

2. In the 'tens of thousands'?

they couldn't get that many when the temps didn't even hit 90 degrees.

[Javaman]

3. Boy that was quick...

You know I feel so much safer now that those morons stopped 300+ illegals from crossing, that really put quite a dent in the tens of thousands that cross every year.

Fat lazy and stupid.

I guess they ran out of beer and pretzels.