Saturday, April 02, 2005

Minuteman Project: Grass roots answer to illegal immigration.

A refreshingly direct answer to illegal immigration on the Mexico-Arizona border has sprung up. Called the Minuteman Project ( the Minuteman name came from America's revolutionary fighters) it involves approximately 1000 volunteers. They supply themselves with guns, binoculars and communication devices. These are private citizens. They want to augment the woefully understaffed regular border patrol of the U S Government.Their self assigned mission is to spot illegals entering the U S and report them to the border guards for a quick arrest. President Bush has condemned the Project. Bush is the guy who started a preemptive war on Iraq with cooked-up intelligence but has reservations about American's protecting their own jobs and country. "The New York Times" so far has not covered the story which probabably means that their logo "All the News That is Fit to Print" has to be related to the Israeli situation.

Former INS Commissioner Doris Meissner was quoted " Lets all hope it does'nt spin out of control and become ugly". I have news for Ms. Meissner. The Minuteman respnse is because illegal immigration has gotten ugly and has spun out of control. There are about 10 million illegals in America. Government figures indicate that Mexican illegals send back home to Mexico about $13 billion a year.The costs of running emergency clinics nationally that are not reimbursed (illegal immigrant usage) run about $9 billion per year. Schools, legal aid and governtment aid runs into the billions annually which are tied to illegals.

The Minuteman Project has a lot to do with self-defense. America needs local answers. All politics are local. If a country has enough local answers there will not be national problems. No national problems then the national government becomes superflous which eliminates the need for taxes and spending which Bush and other presidents before him auction off to their supporters.

It's no wonder that Bush takes the Minuteman Project personally.

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