Posted on 04/01/2005 7:32:09 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters
Later this week, the spotlight will be on Southeastern Arizona. Starting Friday, the month-long Minuteman Project will have volunteers, some armed, watching and waiting for illegal border crossers.
It's gaining international attention. Tuesday, Mexican officials met with the Mayor of Douglas to discus how they will handle potential violence.
Angela Castillo Lopez and her 10-year-old granddaughter live in Agua Prieta Sonora. They cross daily into Douglas to visit family and to buy groceries.
But with word of the Minuteman Project, Lopez says she won't be crossing after April 1st. She feels its too dangerous.
That concerns Agua Prieta Mayor David Figueroa and Douglas Mayor Ray Borane. They met privately to discuss the situations.
Mayor Borane showed fugueroa a flyer distributed over the weekend by a group calling themselves National Alliance.
Borane says, "I think they are concerned, maybe a little bit more, because its going to be dealing with their compatriots."
That's why the Agua Prieta Mayor called a meeting with 50 other local and national officials.
It was one of those officials who bought another flyer to distribute to Mexican citizens. It warns people about crossing the desert in April.
The flyer states, "vigilantes" will be patrolling 24 hours and might be armed.
Mayor Figueroa says his plan is to be cautions and to maintain a low profile. The last thing he want is to provoke violence.
David Morales, a spokesman for Agua Prieta says, "We understand it can become a volitale situation and we don't want to contribute to that in any form."
The Mexican military is on stand-by. One unit has about a thousand soldiers. They're located just across the border.
They're united with the Mayor of Agua Prieta and they're saying they're hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst.
I don't even know where to begin on that one. It's like the police warning everyone not to interfere while a criminal rapes your mother. We need our military on the border NOW.
Will our government defend the minutemen or will we cave in to Fox?
They better stay there. If they come over and pick a fight with American citizens, it will be war. Americans will insist on it.
They better stay there. If they come over and pick a fight with American citizens, it will be war. Americans will insist on it.
Bush has already sided with Fox when he called the Minutemen "vigilantes". If anything bad happens it will be the Minutemen's fault. They have been set-up by the media, Bush, Rice, Fox, etc. That is my prediction.
"Angela Castillo Lopez and her 10-year-old granddaughter live in Agua Prieta Sonora. They cross daily into Douglas to visit family and to buy groceries."
Do they have green cards?
Why aren't they afraid of the border patrol?
Isn't it ironic that Mexico is trying to force US to do something about our undocumented BP agents, but we can't force Mexico to stop their illegal aliens?
Someday, I'm going to read about this in my grandchild's history textbook. If I'm lucky, I won't have to tell "the real story".
I say our guys stand just inside of our border, backsides to mexico and moon their clown soldiers.
I live in Tucson Lupita Murrillo is a hispanic activist for this news organization - of course she is going to be trying to raise the race issue. I believe these flyers were put out by leftest who are trying to make this into a race hate issue, of course with the leftest liberal news media's help. This is about right and wrong, legal and illegal lets not let the news media get away with spreading the lies and hate.
We all need to stand by these undocumented border patrol agents.
American citizens ARMED? How dare they do so when lawbreakers want to carry the only guns! /sarcasm, big time.
They have a god given, contitutionally guaranteed right to be there if they want. If the US goventment does not understand that then we have all made a huge mistake in picking our elected leaders. This whole thing bothers me. One, that is necassary in the first place, and two the very people who made it necassary are trying to undermine it.
Arizona has plenty of the U.S. Military at her disposal if need be. (Luke, Davis Monthan, Yuma, Fort Huachuca) Not to mention CA,TX, and NM.
"They cross daily into Douglas to visit family and to buy groceries.... "
Why do we even have a 'border' then ??
Exactly. This is the attitude of the Mexican government and the Mexican people. With a tradition of Napoleonic law, one has only broken a law if one is caught. This makes for a culture that seeks ways of not getting caught, rather than abiding by the law.
A recent poll showed 90% of Americans want a crack down on illeagal aliens. Why is it that apparently only Hillary Clinton realizes that this is the issue that the next president will ride to the White House?
If you don't stir your beaners they'll burn. lol
The Mexican military is on stand-by. One unit has about a thousand soldiers.
In three station wagons.
Just remember Fox is sending Military to the border. Why? As far as I know the Minuteman group never indicated they were going to cross the border. The Fox had better be careful......
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