Let me add the following to Jackelopebreeder's report:
The source of the following is idratherbepainting and her doctor friend from Phoenix.
Friends of mine and Minuteman Project volunteers were having fun with the coyotes yesterday. On the road about 1/2 mile from my house is a number of popular load pickup points. Yesterday my friends drove down the road looking for signs of illegals or coyotes. Sure enough, in a really popular spot they saw the tell-tale baseball cap on the fence post. That means there's a group with the coyote in the field waiting for pickup or possibly a food drop off. The coyotes have cell phones and arrange these spots and use signs like a baseball cap as a signal of their exact location. Local high school kids and such who are making a few bucks enabling the illegals will get a phone call sometimes with a number and a food drop off point. They'll go down to McDonalds and pick up 100 one dollar sandwiches and come out to the drop off point, give it to the coyote, and collect $200. Instant $100 profit - and illegal.
One of my friends saw the cap, cut it up and threw it on the ground. She drove on about one mile and found some flourescent pink and orange marking tapes tied to the fence like they use on job sites and in landscaping. Coyotes use this all the time to mark trails or pickup points. She cut the tapes from the fence.
She drove back the direction she came and saw that the cap on the fence had been replaced. She cut this cap up too and yelled to the unseen group of illegals "You're not getting your food or a pickup today!" She finished there and drove back down the road again. This time she saw a pickup vehicle - a minivan - at the location where she'd cut the marking tapes. She pulled over behind the minivan and it peeled out and left the area. She yelled at the unseen group of illegals, "No pick up for you!" She saw that the tapes had been replaced by a pants cuff cut from a pair of jeans. She cut it up and tossed it away.
She went back to the place where she'd seen the caps and found now a sock on the fence. She took it off and cut it up. Her friend finally took pity on the illegals in the field and called Border Patrol and let them know there was possibly two groups of illegals in the field and that they're likely getting really hungry and some of them don't have their hats anymore. Border Patrol responded and she left the area.
Last night they went out there again and found two coyotes by the road. When lit up with their spotlights the coyotes ran away into the field. This morning they found a cell phone in the field where the coyotes had been. I've got possession of that cell phone and I am trying to get a charger cable to recharge it and get the numbers off of it. I will turn over the phone numbers and cell phone to Border Patrol if I can get anything from it and confirm it was actually dropped by a coyote.
The load drivers got really brazen last night. About 1.5 miles from my house the Minuteman Project volunteers observed a group of illegals and their coyote coming down from the mountain. They got close enough for the coyote to be observed using a cell phone arranging a pickup. Border Patrol was called. Suddenly, a van pulled into the area in Coronado National Park and the illegal aliens ran and jumped in. The van peeled out and ran straight at the MMP volunteers who dodged out of the way. The van hit the highway and headed north at a high rate of speed. Border Patrol was just arriving and gave chase. At this point we don't know the disposition of the van and its occupants. There's a good chance that they were intercepted at the check point further north, but that is only if the check point was even open at the time (thanks to Rep. Jim Kolbe's (RINO-AZ) meddling it is only open half the time).
Thanks for both reports. The MMP continues with its good work.
Could that be because there aren't as many border crossing as originally thought?
Or does that sentence mean they are being outrun by them and unable to apprehend ones they actually see?
Any luck with the cell phone you found?
This is enlightening information our government seems to not want us to see. Excellent work Minutemen and Minutewomen! Keep it up and expose our do nothing congress as being conspirators by promoting illegal immigration!
Its like a whole little war out there.
I can't believe the feds ignore this stuff.
Sounds like the cell phones are key to the crossings......interesting.
Tell Jackalopebreeder to Stay safe !
Thank you for your service on the front, and for the report!
Nam Vet
Thanks to you, jackelopebreeder, idratherbpainting and all the Minute Men and Minute Women. This has strictly been an eye opener experience for all us bystanders. Just to think that our government has left these good people, Americans, prey for the illegals is unreal.
Before you turn it in, may I suggest a few lengthy calls to . . . ohhhh . . . I don't know . . . Zimbabwe maybe?
Last night in the same location where I said the van came in and picked up a load and then nearly ran down some Minuteman another 3 vans showed up. Border Patrol responded immediately and the load vehicle drivers bailed into the woods. The third vehicle was chased by Border Patrol and stopped about a mile up the road. All of this happened within a mile of my house.
One of my friends, a Minuteman Project volunteer, heard this all on the scanner. Her husband, another volunteer, headed out to warn the volunteers around that area that they should expect a group of 30-50 angry border intruders who lost their rides.
This was to the SW of my house. Continuing to listen on the scanner it was determined that most of the group had made it past the MMP volunteers and into the wash they love to use. How they did this, I don't know. We have volunteers up and down that highway they have to cross. But somehow they found a way. There's all kinds of culverts and washes and stuff under that highway. Maybe there was one we were not watching at the moment in the dark.
The group continued down the wash and the next report from the Border Patrol over the scanner said that they were stretched out in the field along the road about a quarter mile due east of my house where we have no observation posts. So, it sounded like my house was halfway surrounded - to the south and to the east. The group was then estimated at 50 by Border Patrol and 2 load vehicles were intercepted on the road where my friend was harassing the coyotes the day before. The group was headed that direction.
Next report came at about 11pm where a resident on that road heard pounding on his door. There were 3 border intruders on his porch who, in the course of their conversation, admitted that there was a group of 200 in the field nearby. That means there was a group of 200 desperate and angry criminal invaders in the field a quarter mile from my house.
I put the dog out and slept with one eye open. I heard nothing. I will check this morning to see how many the BP picked up and if there was any further incident. As I type, I can hear the BP helicopter flying overhead, likely looking for stragglers in the field. For some reason the helicopter never came up this way last night and spent its time further to the south, closer to the border.