Posted on 04/17/2005 2:35:13 PM PDT by axes_of_weezles
Minuteman Project to issue major planning statement - Organizers reviewing project's future, direction
April 17, 2005 (Tombstone, AZ)---On Monday, April 18, organizers of the Minuteman Project will be issuing a major statement on the immediate and long-term direction of the project.
Rumors have been circulating that the project might cut short its originally planned month-long monitoring of a 23 mile section of the Arizona-Mexican border by citizen volunteers. The project's cofounders, Chris Simcox and Jim Gilchrist, said it would be a mistake to think the border will be abandoned. "However, our overwhelming early successes along with more recent developments have caused us to review how best to direct the project the rest of the month and beyond, " Simcox said.
The project has generated national-indeed, worldwide-attention and controversy. President Bush alluded to the project's volunteers as "vigilantes." Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), Chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus and an outspoken critic of the president's immigration policies, said the volunteers were "heroes in my book." Tancredo has invited the leaders of the project to travel to Washington DC and report on the project to the members of his caucus.
Project organizers said they have been deluged with messages of support along with requests from citizens of the other border states to organize similar Projects in those states. Gilchrist said all issues would be addressed on Monday. The statement will be issued at 12:30pm in Tombstone from the office of the Tombstone Tumbleweed newspaper, 312 Toughnut Street.
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Agreed and well said.
Per your request, Tancredo ist ein Esel.
I'll second that.
Here you go- empirical evidence.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1333998/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=75;results=1
What's your answer to this evidence?
3rd, and the motion passes.
"If public opinion were high, they would not be shutting it down. They would be milking it for all it is worth."
"Project organizers said they have been deluged with messages of support along with requests from citizens of the other border states to organize similar Projects in those states."
I guess you have issues reading too.
MMP bump.
The problem is he is being cited by the MSM as wanting to take out Delay on the sunday morning talk shows.
The Minutemen would be wise to minimize contact with him until the Delay issue blows over.
Tancredo: DeLay Charges 'Trumped Up'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1385623/posts
They have my full support.
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Oh sweetheart, you're not up on the Minutemen are you? Apparently, they are not only not "shutting down", public opinion has been so high they are extending it past April 30 and now there is also a group in Yuma.
I'm still waiting for those polls from Tom about how unpopular the Minutemen are, judging from my area (not known from illegal immigration), they are quite popular here.
Anxiously awaiting....
Bump to that.
52% think immigration should be curtailed
46% think it should be expanded or stay the same.
Landslide? No
58% of republicans approve of Bush's handling of immigration.
Your second link:
Virtually everyone is opposed to illegal immigration.
The problem is that if anyone disagrees with you about the solution to illegals, you accuse them of being OBL, which is dishonest.
You favor round-ups, mass deportations, militarizing the border, and building a fence.
I favor a guest worker program.
He sure is, Vidkun. Tancredo ran a poll and found that for those identified as quislings, opinion of the Minuteman Project was very low. He also found that, for those poll respondents among that same Benedict Arnold group, Osama Bin Laden was highly favored for President in 2008 and there was a disproportionate incidence of rectal-cranial inversion.
There have been several article posted here that said that Tancredo asked them to shut it down.
Tancredo asked them to shut it down.
Tancredo asked them to shut it down.
Thanks, I was waiting for the alleged "poll" that I hadn't heard about. Didn't hear it from Ficklin but those results tell me all I need to hear.
MMP is very popular here in the midwest. I've not heard one voice against it.
LOL.
I don't know this as fact, only what I read, but I read that was a rumor that turned out to not be true.
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