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Some Truth Found in Minutemen Efforts

By BYRON SLATER
Voice Guest Columnist
Wednesday, May 25, 2005

A recent article by Jerry Seper of the Washington Times reported on the
deployment of 36,000 National Guard troops or state militia on the
U.S.-Mexico border. The deployment would stop the illegal flow of
illegal aliens into our country, according to a congressional report
that credits the Minuteman Project with proving that additional
manpower could "dramatically reduce, if not virtually eliminate"
illegal immigration at the border.

This report was prepared by investigators for the Congressional
Immigration Reform Caucus. It states that the Minuteman Project, who
shut down a 23-mile stretch of the Arizona border last month, served as
a model for a government effort to reclaim control of our international
border with Mexico.

The report continues, "The tide of illegal crossings on the border of
the United States is beyond unsatisfactory; it is catastrophic. It does
not ebb and flow, it only grows. It is rising without measure and
eroding the very fiber of our safety, life and culture."

It further states that the U.S. Border Patrol failed "through no fault
of its rank-and-file enforcement officers" to protect the United States
from the influx of illegal aliens and the threat to our security and
control of communicable disease it represents. It said the agency's
uniformed leadership should be pointed in a "new direction" as it is in
"total denial of the magnitude of the disaster." As currently
organized, staffed and supported, the border patrol "cannot be relied
upon" to remedy the situation soon, the report said.

I do not believe that a continuation of the Minuteman Project, in the
long term, is a viable solution to the problems that exist along our
borders, but it has and will continue to prove that if we have the
will, we can stem the flow of illegals that are coming into our
country.
It is the responsibility of our federal government to guard our borders
and the further exercise of the individuals' rights to demand that they
do so, is clearly within the purview of the Minutemen.

One can only hope that the administration will recognize the facts that
are expressed in the congressional report and take the necessary
actions suggested, before private citizens are forced to suffer bodily
harm by the violent actions of the "coyotes," who look to illegal
aliens to provide their livelihood. It is not a matter of if violence
occurs, but a matter of when.

Byron Slater is a member of the Border Solution Task Force, a local
organization concerned with reforming border control and immigration
policy.

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Some Truth Found in Minutemen Efforts
Posted by Arizdad on Wednesday May 25, 2005 at 12:44 pm MST

Link to story:
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=euLTJbMUKvH&b=312131&ct=884055

A recent article by Jerry Seper of the Washington Times reported on the
deployment of 36,000 National Guard troops or state militia on the
U.S.-Mexico border. The deployment would stop the illegal flow of
illegal aliens into our country, according to a congressional report
that credits the Minuteman Project... Not to mention it would put a
damper on the ACLU's Pot supply.

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