Hey, bayourod, why don't you put your money (instead of your foot) where your mouth is and come join us in April. Since you think the aliens are so peaceful, I'm sure you'd enjoy the trip. Arizona's Sonora Desert in April is absolutely beautiful.
Posted on 12/15/2004 8:05:59 PM PST by JackelopeBreeder
Buenos nachos, muchachos.
The periodic political silly season is over, so I’m off the campaign trails and back on the Illegal Alien Trails again. I seem to meet a more honest class of people out there – a lot of them honestly hate me. To be honest on my part, I get a nice warm fuzzy feeling from all that emotion.
The situation here has not changed in the last couple of months. We still have thousands crossing daily through Cochise County. The US Border Patrol is swamped; at any given moment there are several times as many illegal aliens running loose in the brush than there are agents available to track and apprehend them. Most get away.
Civil Homeland Defense is still busy patrolling and turning aliens over to the BP agents. American Border Patrol has secured a new headquarters site directly on the border with two UAV landing strips and is actively flying missions. A number of smaller groups have formed to protect outlying neighborhoods. Still, there isn’t enough manpower.
The good news is that reinforcements are on the way – but they’re not from the government.
A couple of months ago a gent named Jim Gilchrist was visiting Tombstone. He was a reporter years ago, so it sort of follows that he would visit the town’s historic newspapers. The old Epitaph is still in existence, but most of its articles are on the events and personalities of the Old West. The Tumbleweed sticks to current issues – and is owned by Chris Simcox, better known as the leader of Civil Homeland Defense.
Jim hit it off with Chris and ended up going out on patrol with CHD for a close up look at the border. One thing he noticed immediately was lack of Border Patrol personnel. Jim analyzed the situation and came up with a good idea on how to make up some of the manpower deficit.
He quietly started up the Minuteman Project, recruiting people from all over the country for what amounts to a working vacation in Cochise County. The objective is to act as spotters, documenting and publicizing the situation here. Just weeks after its inception, 139 people from 26 states have signed up to spend all or part of next April here in the desert as spotters. These are men and women from all walks of life. Six of those who signed up are pilots and they’re bringing their planes to provide aerial spotting.
Quite a few land owners here have already invited the group to set up camp on their property. A number of us locals (to include a couple of other Freepers besides myself) are busy doing local coordination. We could easily have a few hundred volunteers show up. People continue to sign up every day and the project doesn’t start for another three and a half months.
The open borders boohoos in Tucson have already gotten wind of the Minuteman Project and they are not best pleased – no, preciousss, not pleased at all. We’ve already been treated to the usual yammering and screeching from the usual suspects. Word has undoubtedly gotten to the coyotes as well.
I’m getting a good laugh just trying to imagine the reaction from our masters in DC. A lot of them were upset when CHD began putting groups of twenty or thirty out on patrol. They were highly embarassed when ABP fielded its own UAVs and broadcast the video feed live over the Internet. Now they have a couple of hundred typical Americans from all over the country lugging cameras into harm’s way on an out of control stretch of the border – and they brought their own air force.
Sounds fascinating.
Just stay relatively safe out there.
Ping!
If you really thought that they were terrorists, murderers, rapists, etc... you wouldn't try to stop them on the border any more than you would go into the inner city gang areas at night and try to take pictures of criminals committing crimes.
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"The situation here has not changed in the last couple of months. We still have thousands crossing daily through Cochise County."
"The US Border Patrol is swamped; at any given moment there are several times as many illegal aliens running loose in the brush than there are agents available to track and apprehend them. Most get away."
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My hat is off to you sir. I salute you.
If you really thought that they were terrorists, murderers, rapists, etc... you wouldn't try to stop them on the border any more than you would go into the inner city gang areas at night and try to take pictures of criminals committing crimes.
I see that you're still coming to the defense of your illegal alien lawbreaker buddies.
Who said anything about unarmed?
Hey, bayourod, why don't you put your money (instead of your foot) where your mouth is and come join us in April. Since you think the aliens are so peaceful, I'm sure you'd enjoy the trip. Arizona's Sonora Desert in April is absolutely beautiful.
Bump to that.
I like that name.
Since state governments and those in control in D.C. no longer represent the Ameican people, this seems to be the only way.
Robert Bonner 6/3/03
"We call it - the U.S. Border Patrol calls it - the West Desert corridor, and it is literally the corridor of death. Ninety (90) people died there last year, mainly in the summer months when temperatures soar to over 115 degrees (7) Fahrenheit. They died from thirst. They succumbed to the blinding heat, often within hours of the grueling trek. And this desert takes many days to cross. Many were found dead on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation.
Many have died, and unless we do something, many more will die.
A migrant who nearly lost his life in that desert last month before - luckily - being rescued by the Border Patrol and deported, said it well: "Trying to cross that desert is crazy!" Think again, before you risk your life. Mothers must help convince their children not to go, because many times they don't come back alive. "
Why don't you just fly to Cancun with me and we'll research the nite life there.
Is this the fellow from the midwest (Missouri? Kentucky?), who already organized one party to the border some time ago?
It's probably all of the above and then some.
People here are just fed up. These are not just humble little campesinos passing through. Lately I've seen too many incidents where they pop aggressive and violent on the Border Patrol. They know that they won't suffer any real penalty.
I dislike the term "Illegal Immigrant" as either you are Illegaly here or you have been procssed as an immigrant.. I detest what the Left has done to our language..
No, he's in southern California. Retired CPA.
Unarmed? Strange assumpition.
Incidentally, do you consider them harmless? If so, and considering there are over a half million illegal aliens currently incarcerated in U.S. Federal prisons for committing violent crimes, I'd say your position is a bit naive.
April, right?
ummmmm, FReepmail me.
Better yet, turn them in to the IRS. They even have a form for it and you can be awarded up to 20% of any back taxes, penalties, and interest that the IRS manages to get. Uncle Suck might wink at illegal aliens, but not at tax evasion.
"Violent" crimes? Where did you get "violent"? People who commit violent crimes (other than robbing a federally insured bank, or killing a federal judge, etc...) are prosecuted by states and incarcerated in state prisons.
Federal inmates are people like Martha Stewart and violators of immigration laws.
Illegal aliens showing their love for the camera
Another weird idea escaped my sore brain.. As seeing the "Bounty
Hunter" go after the bad guys on TV.. Maybe form a 501c3 to pay
volunteer bounty hunters a fee to wisk law breakers back across the
border.. ?? I am sure lots of un-rugged individuals not willing to
patrol.. would contribute to a good cause..??
HUGE APPLAUSE from California, JB! Stay safe.
Orange County! Yeah
I am the fortunate beneficiary of the greatest economy our nation has ever experienced as a result of the policies of Reagan and G.W. Bush.
Some people would use the illegal immigration issue to bring down President Bush and the Republican Party. They would give us a President Hillary.
You might recognize some of them They say things such as "Bush is a traitor", "Bush has sold us out", "There's not a dime's worth of difference between the Republicans and Democrats", "Bush has an open border policy", "Bush has done nothing to protect us from terrorists crossing our borders", etc...
Where do you stand? Do you think you would prosper under a President Hillary?
Nadie sabría lo que un papá criminal de alcahuete de invasor usted era si usted no sonaría querría apenas MALDEF.
It would just be an extension of the government's own "catch & release" policy. Most are simply given voluntary deportation and try again a few hours later. Last summer I caught the same guy at almost the same spot three days in a row. I think he made it the fourth time.
Prueba agradable.
Todo usted tiene es el humo, los espejos también la inclinación para cambiar el tema usted hombre pequeño torcido.
I'm interested. April did you say?
Bump
BTTT
He and his pals rely on exploiting their cheap labor and no benefits. Cutting off the illegal aliens threatens his bottome line.
As an immigration attorney he's licking his chops at all the mordida he'll rake in as an official gatekeeper.
If you really thought that they were terrorists, murderers, rapists, etc... you wouldn't try to stop them on the border any more than you would go into the inner city gang areas at night and try to take pictures of criminals committing crimes.
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Hey, look at it this way. Sooner or later, every American Traitor will have a price to pay too...
My feeling is.. it isn't up to Government policy.. The law is there
and it is clear.. but there must be a ground-swell and organization
for legal citizen action to be effective.. I feel politicians are the
problem.. and probably never do a solution.. :(.
Stranger things have happened...
How's the Az. desert in April anyway. Is it back of the truck and sleeping bag weather?
They don't have..hotels there? :-)
One more thing, a large number of the "vigilantes" here on the border are less-than-rugged senior citizens. They do quite well -- the illegals seem to pick up on the fact that even an old dog still has one last spine-snapping bite saved up.
There was an incident last year when one young pendejo insulted a sweet little grey-haired granny who had been born in Sicily. I doubt she left an inch of his body unbruised and his friends were still laughing at him when the Border Patrol arrived. She did it with her bare hands and I still address her as "Your Majesty..."
Sorry Ape, my family's been in Texas since the Civil War and I don't go for that "brown" horseshit.
Criminal invader labor, absolutely.
Race? Irrelevent.
This shot will be 10 days old tomorrow.
What mountains are those? Got a rough location on that shot?
I'm in good shape. I can still hump the boonies with a ruck.
This chunk of kitty-litter country is paradise. We even have plants that resemble trees. I usually just string up a hammock and rock off to sleep. As long as you're not in close proximity to the Huachucas, you're perfectly safe.
Sonora desert, eh?
Hear you got them toads down there :)
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