NYT/AP: Minuteman Project Plans New Border Patrol

Minuteman Project Plans New Border Patrol
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 21, 2006

TUCSON, Arizona (AP) -- A controversial civilian border patrol group is planning a return to Arizona in two weeks to again confront the problem of illegal immigration.

Some say the original Minuteman Project conducted in April 2005 in Cochise County and a subsequent patrol in October brought increased national attention to the Arizona stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border.

''I think we've clearly been the catalyst that has sparked the national debate,'' said Minuteman president Chris Simcox. ''That's been our goal, to bring national attention to the fact that the government has failed miserably to bring control to the southern border.''

However many Hispanic groups and advocates for immigrant rights still call the Minuteman group racist or vigilantes....

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Simcox said his group will continue to plan monthlong patrols every six months until the federal government gains control of the border....

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Minuteman-Return.html?_r=1&oref=login

I spent a year and a half living in the gila national forest in southern Arizona. My wife and I were working on a wolf restoration project. While I am of Irish heretidge I could pass for latino easily. (yeah ok tell me about the black irish) I wonder what would have happened to me if the millimeter men ran into me running around in the wilderness in southern Arizona?
Makes me want to cancel my return trip.

as long as they remain civil and humane

So he returns to the birth of his fame.....Southern Arizona. He will be returning just as the desert becomes heated and the natives flee to cooler sites. The UofA sports programs with the exception of the girls baseball games will be slow sports news. Summertime brings news of forest fires, deaths of illegals due to desert temperatures, etc., etc. Chris Simcox knows this is a good time to press for name recognition and he will make good use of it. We can expect our local news to cover the traveling wannabee "Minutemen," sitting in their campchairs/lounges, binoculars in hand looking accross the flatexpanse of desert, under a a shade canopy attached to their RV's and just 15-20 minutes from town. Meanwhile the illegals are crossing high craggy Mountains miles away to the west waiting to cross the low desert when the temperatures maybe a few degrees cooler.