The End of the Beginning for the Minuteman Project

Sunday morning, the month-long first phase of the Minuteman Project officially ended. At least 857 volunteers claimed a 98% reduction in illegal border crossings along the 23-mile stretch of the Arizona/Mexico border. At last count, 335 criminals were captured by the Border Patrol as a result of Minuteman calls, and an estimated 60,000 criminals were prevented from flowing over the border. Not surprisingly, the vigilante acts of violence foretold by the faulty oracles of (illegal) immigrant's rights organizations (and a cowardly federal government) never occured.

The only threatening act of the entire monthlong exercise was a death threat made against the Minuteman by a Santa Clara County (CA) Social Services employee from his work computer. Not surprisingly, the death threat was not reported by ACLU "legal observers" in the area, presumably because they couldn't see to report it through all the smoke.

The stoner ACLU volunteers were apparently the only Americans in the Naco/Douglas corridor over the past month who broke the law.

The Minuteman Project, which has now grown to an estimated total of 20,000 volunteers ready to patrol both our northern and southern borders, now heads to California.

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