News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Minutemen increase political activities

Group backs candidate, enters migrant camp
By Leslie Berestein
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Phoyo by PEGGY PEATTIE / Union-Tribune
May 18, 2006

Day-labor pickup sites in North County have been getting some additional visitors lately, and not the kind who are there to hire anyone.

An anti-illegal immigrant activist group called the San Diego Minutemen and an offshoot group called the Vista Citizens Brigade have been going to day-labor sites in Vista and Carmel Valley to try to block the hiring of day laborers, many of whom are in the country illegally.

They have stepped up their efforts after the pro-immigrant national boycott May 1, an organizer said.

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