- The largest local union of Border Patrol agents in the
country has declared its support for the Minuteman Project in Arizona,
while at the same time slamming both the American Civil Liberties Union
and President Bush.
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- According to its website, the U.S. Border Patrol Local
2544, which covers the Tucson sector of the agency, the volunteers involved
in the border-monitoring Minuteman Project have been nothing but supportive.
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- "We want to make it clear ñ because we've
had a lot of questions about this ñ we have not had one single complaint
from a rank-and-file agent in this sector about the Minutemen," says
a statement on the site. "Every report we've received indicates these
people are very supportive of the rank-and-file agents; they're courteous.
Many of them are retired firefighters, cops, and other professionals, and
they're not causing us any problems whatsoever."
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- The group blames the ACLU for setting off ground sensors
in the area of the Minutemen activities:
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- "Reports of [Minutemen] causing 'ground sensors'
to go off are exaggerated because most of those are being set off by the
ACLU sneaking around trying to find the Minutemen doing something wrong."
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- As WorldNetDaily reported, the ACLU has sent representatives
to the 23-mile Arizona border area to monitor the Minutemen and report
any civil-liberties abuses to authorities. Instead, said Minuteman Project
spokesman Grey Deacon, the law group's people are flashing lights, sounding
horns and warning off illegals and their "coyote" human smugglers
from entering territory patrolled by the volunteers. Deacon claims such
activity amounts to aiding and abetting illegal aliens.
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- The Minuteman Project has attracted hundreds of volunteers,
many legally carrying guns and waving flags, from across the country. They
plan to keep watch around the clock until the end of the month, intimidating
illegal aliens with their presence and alerting the Border Patrol via cell
phones or radios when they see people crossing.
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- The Border Patrol local emphasizes the Minuteman Project
is "shifting the bulk of the illegal-alien traffic out of the Naco
corridor."
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- The statement then takes the president to task for his
immigration proposal.
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- "If only President Bush were so supportive of the
rank-and-file agents," the site states. "While President Bush
hangs out thousands of miles away in the White House, these people are
willing to give up their time and energy to actually do something. While
President Bush entices millions of illegal aliens to keep coming with his
amnesty proposals and his demoralizing statements that he doesn't want
Border Patrol agents chasing 'good-hearted people just coming here to take
jobs Americans won't do,' the Minutemen are trying to get our laws enforced.
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- "The Minutemen have made it very clear that they
fully support rank-and-file Border Patrol agents. If only we had such support
from the politicians we have to work for (aren't we really supposed to
be working for the citizens of this country anyway?)"
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