Citizens launch drones to patrol Mexican border

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | September 7, 2003 | EUNICE MOSCOSO

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

I hope the drug smugglers/coyotes don't try to shoot it down or shoot up the control van.

[Spiff]

I hope the drug smugglers/coyotes don't try to shoot it down or shoot up the control van.

Well, they or somebody like them have already used bolt-cutters to cut the chains to the gate to access a walled area to steal over $6,000 worth of equipment from ABP's HQ. They also succeeded in getting Glenn Spencer arrested when he was firing his rifle, the following evening, to scare off their next foray into the HQ property. I guess if you're defending your property against thieves and potential murderers (this incident followed many death threats) you better make sure no rounds ricochet off the ground to strike any inanimate objects.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

I wish Mr. Spencer the best of luck. I was ignorant about the border/illegals situation until I stumbled across the AP web site one day a few years ago. We have got to win this fight.

[janetgreen]

Glenn Spencer's organization should be supported by all who are against illegal immigration. I know I'll donate to this good cause.

[rightofrush]

Do we have a volunteer?

[yoe]

Bush should be embarrassed??? Hardly! He has tried very hard to get security up and running through Homeland Security; that agency found it had and has more problems with "turf wars" among themselves than we have terrorists interning the country. Old habits are hard to break; even now the FBI and CIA covet their intelligence sources and are slow to share.

The Border Patrol is more than happy to have the help being provided them by citizens who have the courage to protect their land and do so. As far as I know, there has not been an incident of illegal immigrants being harmed since the early 90’s when a frustrated rancher roughed up some trashing his land for the umpteenth time. Now with so many citizens doing their constitutional duty in protecting their country with in the confines of the law, more illegal aliens are detained and reported then the Border Patrol takes over.

Doing business as usual – by committee – in Washington, is like using a one horse powered motor on a 60 foot boat; it takes forever to make a turn in the right direction.

Citizens like Mr. Spencer and Chris Simcox are not vigilantes, they are doing what this cumbersome government can’t - get its act together to protect our borders. Thank heavens for such men!

[scottlang]

Bush should be embarrassed. A small, private citizens group is doing what his appointees still need a few more years to study let alone implement.

The situation on the border is one more reason I am having increasing reservations about GWB.

[4Freedom]

Yeah, Bush is really trying hard to increase security.

First he nominates James Ziglar, an open borders, pro-illegal immigration Libertarian financier to head the INS. Then he nominates Aguirre, a politically connected hack of a Cuban banker to replace him at HS.

Big deal.

[archy]

...mainly, at the hands of the coyote gangs who pay my salary. Excuse me, won't you? I've got to call Agua Prieta, for orders....

Nuevo Laredo, more likely....

[Dante3]

bttt

[traditionalist]

Republicans never miss an opportunity to bash Latinos.

Since Latinos seem to vote against Republicans no matter what the latter do, can you blame them?

[Guillermo]

Outside of wacko Kalifornistan, the ratios are much more balanced.

One thing I know, the GOP can't out Democrat the Democrats.

Pandering to them will not work, but only backfire.

One has to think what moderate run of the mill white Democrat voters think of Bob Mulholland and his weird (Republicans never miss an opportunity to bash Latinos) rant on Hannity's shows last week.

[traditionalist]

Outside of wacko Kalifornistan, the ratios are much more balanced.

The only place they're more ballanced is in Texas, where much of the hispanic population has been there for multiple generations and is thoroughly assimilated. In most other states, like Arizona, New Mexico, New York, and even Florida, if you exclude Cubans from the analysis, hispanics are just as leftist as in California.

On another note, please do not disparage my home state. We are being overrun, it is true, but that is not our fault since we do not have control over immigration policy. When we tried to do something about it some tyrant of a federal judge stopped us.

Before you dismiss California voters as wacky, do not forget that California voters were the first to revolt against against affirmative action and bilingual education. And as I said before, we were also the first to revolt against illegal immigration, but a federal judge stopped us. You can hardly blame us for that.

[Guillermo]

I'm not saying there aren't any good people in KA...

I'm saying that people get what they want in the form of the Legislature. Your legislature and Governor passes and signs some very wackjob laws, and those laws are only the express will of the people.