Group plans private border patrol

Associated Press ^ | July 23, 2002 21:05:00

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SIERRA VISTA - A California man is organizing a group of volunteers to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border.

Glenn Spencer said his new organization, American Border Patrol, will use electronic devices to track and report illegal activities to regular law enforcement agencies beginning Sept. 1.

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I know this is a couple of days old, but I haven't seen it posted (I didn't find it in a search either).

Does anyone know anything about Spencer or his organization?

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Do you have any (additional) info on this?

[nonliberal]

More power to them!

[Redbob]

"Rep. Bobby Lugo said Spencer and those who support him are vigilantes who pretend to use the law as a way to interfere with legal procedures."

More like "lack of legal procedures."
This kind of thing wouldn't be necessary if the government would do its' part.

[lideric]

One state legislator said if the group sets up shop in Cochise County it will create more divisiveness in the community.

If that's what it takes to shame the government into protecting our borders then divisiveness is fine and dandy.

[Redbob]

Spencer's got an informative web site at
http://www.americanpatrol.com/

[HiJinx]

Looks like the article title wasn't very informative, it was posted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/719881/posts

Another related article was published in Sunday's Sierra Vista Herald and posted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/723622/posts

Both posts received about 70 comments.

[gubamyster]

Glenn Spencer said his new organization, American Border Patrol, will use electronic devices to track and report illegal activities to regular law enforcement agencies beginning Sept. 1.

Good luck to Spencer & I wish him well, but what are the regular law enforcement agencies going to do w/ the illegals turned over to them? Currently they don't do anything but let them go when law enforcement has them in their hands on traffic stops & other routine infractions. I hope he rounds up a bunch of illegals. It will be interesting to see what happens to them.

He should tag them through the ear like the Crocodile Hunter, to see how many are repeat catches.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Good!! If it draws national attention to a problem many have been complaining about for years, that's fine with me.

Let the internet cams roll.

[ibbryn]

Sounds like this guy is just participating in the TIPS program, as per our President's request. What's the problem?

Oh, we're susposed to report suspicious activity UNLESS it involves illegal alliens crossing our border at will? Sorry, I guess I missed that memo.

[DoughtyOne]

American Patrol

Glenn Spencer's Web Site

Glenn Spencer has been working on this topic for a number of years.  He's tireless.  I respect his work.  There are times when I haven't agreed with him 100%, but then when do we ever agree with anyone 100%.  I give the guy credit for taking on this issue and seeing it through.  He deserves our support.

[HiJinx]

What he's going to do is bankrupt (if a gov't agency can be bankrupted!!) the Tucson sector if the Border Patrol.

The 'LE agencies' he's going to report to are the INS and DEA. We have tons of drugs and tens of thousands of illegals passing through Cochise County annually. By recording and reporting the traffice, he will force the LE agencies to either do their job or admit that they can't do their job. And we'll take it from there.....

[Marine Inspector]

All I have seen is what has been posted here and on other threads.

It will be interesting to see how this all pans out.

[madfly]

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[Free the USA]

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[ZULU]

"Glenn Spencer said his new organization, American Border Patrol, will use electronic devices to track and report illegal activities to regular law enforcement agencies beginning Sept. 1."

Good luck. He will probably not be telling them anything they aren't well aware of already, but unwilling or unable to do anything about.

[RnMomof7]

They will be called a militia. The public will be told THEY are the enemy.Not the illegals pouring in.

Just watch and see...

[Twodees]

The public will be told THEY are the enemy.Not the illegals pouring in.

You're right. The sheriff and a state legislator are already making noises to that end.

[Tancredo Fan]

He would like the U.S. Border Patrol strengthened rather than have private citizens monitoring the border, Dever said.

So what does Larry Dever plan to do about it? Hassle the citizens who have every right to monitor what's sneaking in? He's probably just afraid that citizens will demand that his office conact the AG and get approved to arrest illegals... then he won't have a spare minute to sit around on his a$$ and make excuses as to why the laws shouldn't be enforced.

[4Freedom]

It's going to be awful hard for all of these federal agencies and local law enforcement to claim they're doing their jobs when Spencer starts broadcasting 'real-time' footage, of the daily invasion of our country, on the internet.

Telling people that, as many as, 10,000 illegals are crossing the borders, daily, and showing them are two different things.

Let's see the people's reaction to watching the Mexican military shoot a Border Patrol Agent's truck full of holes or the next truckload of illegals that are murdered by 'coyotes'.