Posted on 04/10/2005 4:47:01 PM PDT by Spiff
Day Nine and illegal alien apprehensions are still way down. Locally, traffic has shifted away from the Naco Line, moving eastwards towards Douglas and westward to the Huachuca Mountains and beyond to the San Rafael Valley. There are also reports of more traffic heading towards Nogales and the Tohono O’odham reservation.
There were a couple of good sized groups passing through the Huachucas overnight. Some were nabbed by the Border Patrol immediately after detection, with stragglers appearing throughout the day. Most were reportedly from Michoacan, west of Mexico City. One alien was seen to toss a cell phone into the brush and it was later recovered; the call history may be interesting. The last three stragglers made it back to the highway about lunchtime and were spotted, reported, and picked up by the Border Patrol. One of the agents told us later that these three were Guatamalan.
The morning was bizarre. Before I arrived on site, I found two young females (16-20 years old) frantically trying to flag down any ride they could find. Their coyote had abandoned them in the middle of the night and in the middle of nowhere. I called it in and waited about 200 yards away. By luck there was a deputy sheriff and a border patrol unit close by and they responded within a couple of minutes. The girls were tired, cold, hungry, dehydrated – and terrified. I wanted that coyote’s hide.
The morning went from bizarre to unreal within an hour. Chris Simcox and I were conferring on the day’s outposts when our scanners picked up message traffic on a group of 20+ illegals – all of them young females – spotted 16 miles north of the border. My guess is that it took them at least two days (possibly three) to reach that point, as the trails do not run in a straight line and cannot be traveled openly. Finding that many women in one group with no men is unheard of. The Border Patrol did a thorough ground/air search of the surrounding area and found no sign of anyone bearing a Y-chromosome. No other details available at this time.
There was a small brushfire of “undetermined” origin in the upper end of Hunter Canyon late this afternoon, so the night shift may see some more traffic later tonight.
Tomorrow could be interesting, so watch this space.
You may very well be right. It has been amazing that a group with basically no funding has been brought together and been able to have the success that we have had in the face of the immense opposition this group faces. Pray for the Minutemen.
We are praying for this effort and will continue to do so! God bless.
There will be many more of these "patriot picnics"......many more. We'll make a few of them !!
See ya there !
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