News From the Border: Border a 'free for all,' group says

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.

Monday, April 02, 2007

Border a 'free for all,' group says

Robert Anglen
The Arizona Republic
Apr. 2, 2007 12:00 AM

Less than 24 hours after beginning patrols along the U.S.-Mexico border near Nogales, members of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps say they encountered as many as 350 undocumented immigrants.

Minuteman President Chris Simcox said Sunday that his group rescued seven immigrants, found the body of another and led border agents to hundreds of migrants in the first day of a month long citizen effort to deter illegal immigration.

"It's a free-for-all down here," Simcox said, as his radio cracked with reports that eight immigrants had just been sighted near a water tank. "This place is crawling with (immigrants). . . . It's an amnesty rush."

U.S. Border Patrol agents, who do not endorse the citizen effort, confirmed that the Minuteman group was busy. One agent said in the first four hours of his shift Sunday morning, he had responded to calls involving as many as 60 illegal immigrants.

Minuteman Day 1: Hundreds seen crossing illegally

Labels: Border Patrol, Civilian Border Patrol, Illegal Invasion