what  do you think?Minutemen say they'll erect fence if Bush won't act !?
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The Minutemen are patriots of the highest order, as are you and JD, and some others posting here! Banana Bean, laugh all you want - when the deportation starts, everybody can go cry on the shoulder of good ol' Vicente, right? We Americans need to act, and need to do it now! I applaud the Minutemen for bringing to light what the media has been reluctant to show. Americans must realize that our situation is growing more dire by the day. These invaders do not want to be Americans - they want us out of our own country, and we need to stop the inflow and take our country back! As Pancha so astutely points out, they aren't going to stop (you forgot to put the word ILLEGAL in front of immigrant again, Pancha) so they have to be stopped. If that makes the Minutemen vigilante's, oh well... I support them no matter what you want to call them - brief pause waiting for Pancha to call them racists... GOD BLESS THE US!!!\nYes, Banana Bean - they do want us out! I've seen the signs telling us "Go back to Europe", "This is our continent, not yours", etc. I'm wrong? I just took it wrong the same way I took it wrong when I saw all those Mexican flags flying at the rally's? Or I took it wrong when I saw the pic of the Mexican flag above an upside down American flag? Give it a break! We're not blind, and we're not stupid! You picked a fight with the wrong people - the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of Americans wants illegals out! And although we might not get all of them, we'll at least keep the numbers way, way down - not out of control like it is now! Keep laughing...
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The policy of the United Stated is that we will respond to any attack on us using weapons of mass destruction with our own weapons on mass destruction - in an irrational and overwhelming manner.\n\nIran knows this - and I seriously doubt that they want to go there.
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Hope Canada is ready for the spread of population cutting through their wilderness. This use to be the Northern Woods And look at it now.   We should all get how many acres when this happens? I like Canada and we need more land-to please the world. And she is willing to share???? How nice. \n\nI am glad we get these government activity reports-than we all won't be surprised-bless those Minutemen.
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Nobody likes to hear the truth, and the truth is just by being an Illegal forces them to do other illegal stuff, like drive with out a license not pay taxes etc etc... This country needs to stick together. If you now an Illegal turn them in. Keep pushing the INS until something is done, do not be afraid. the Minutemen should be an inspiration to us.
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Bush isn't going a good job on anything, let along border security.  Did you know the Oregon boarder is protected by all of three state troopers?  I met one last summer when I was camping.  And keeping Mexicans out isn't 'border' protection, neither is locking up Canada.  Its being a jerk and trying to push another issue.  He's doing much less than what the media and he shows to the public when it comes to actual homeland security.
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The May 1, Illegal Rally was the day America woke up!\n\nThe backlash was phenomenal!  Organizations like the Minutemen, Numbers USA, Fire Coalition, Grass Fire, the Patriot, and others have grown in huge numbers and are receiving lots of donations from loyal Americans.  Did you see where the Minutemen received a multi-million dollar donation to built the fence?\n\nKeep on Going, AMERICA....the movement has begun like a ripple in a pond and will continue until it reaches the power of a tsunami!
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I think someone needs an a$$ whopping. It's ridiculous. How are the minute men suppose to succeed if they are constantly being ratted out.\n\nLOL LisAnn I hear you. I think we need to put a hospital right on the Mexican side of the border. That way they can't wait at the border until the women go into labor.\n\nHow about this for an idea how about we pay them to build the border fence.???? Of course it would be supervised and they would be working on the opposite side of it.
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great question. I can't wait for the silly responses from the minuteman crowd.\n\nI just hope someone answers it instead of just insulting you or giving useless stats they can't prove or "facts" they can't support.
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Why not?Are not we Americans civilized people?I feel "we the people" are going to catch it,just because the "DECIDER" is deciding to be the playground bully,and everybody likes to to see the bully get it,but this time he will drag all of us down with him!The problem is as I see it, our government is just trying to a real prick about things,but us Americans just want to live and let live.Why does BUSHCO want to give them crazy mad as hell peckerwoods a reason?Those guys are not,like those other guys,them boys look dangerous as hell!
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Of course they should. We all have the right to view and report any illegal activities, including illegal immigration. Think of all the tax payer money they save us everytime they stop an illegal from crossing. Thats one less person we have to give free health care to, anykind of welfare, teach their children. All these things cost money. Money that they do not contribute to in the way of income taxes, like the rest of us. The Minutemen might even be saving our lives, when they stop the next terrorist from crossing the border. We owe them a great debt of gratitude.
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The Minutemen believe that the rule of law should be upheld.  And if the government isn't fulfilling their half of the socialcompact (as Madison, Jay, and Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers) they are doing their part to help the Border Patrol find lawbreakers in the form of those crossing the border illegally (whether drugsmuggler or illegal aliens).
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I don't know his reasoning behind the Minuteman thing.  I have to say I was kind of surprised by that.  It may just be that he doesn't want an international incident while we are working things out still, domestically.\n\nI think he really does want to strengthen the border, so in that sense I don't think he is 'supporting illegal immigration'.  He is then trying to increase legal immigration through a guest worker program, since people wanting cheap labor was obviously one of the reasons the problem got where it did.  If his program worked perfectly (people actually go back at the end of their visas, etc.) it would mean we would still get immigrants, but at least they would be in the system.  Meanwhile the criminals and terrorists could be kept out.\n\nStopping the flow of illegal immigrants has a huge economic effect on Mexico, granted it was because our money was being sent 'home' there while the services for supporting the worker and his family were being used in this country.  It would be something any Mexican President would be interested in, and both Fox and his leftist opponent are running on platforms based on OUR immigration laws.\n\nI think Bush's main priority is the national security issue of securing the border, and he has the other elements in place to build a consensus and (with regards to the illegals already here) for reasons of practicality and humanity.\n\nI wouldn't think it was a bad system as long as the border were secured BEFORE legal immigration were increased.  However, there are absolutely people lobbying for even more relaxed immigration.  The pro-illegals are asking for a rolling statute of limitations that would make illegal immigrants legal if they could get here illegally and remain here for three years.\n\nContact the Senate Majority leader and House Leader with your concerns, since they will have the greatest impact on negotiating the actual Bill to be voted on.
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I agree with Jessica!!!! And, YES, some of the property on the border is owned by ranchers!! The ILLEGALS cut their fences, and trash their land as they cross into Arizona!!! The Minutemen group are in the process of building a fence, since our government REFUSES to help these ranchers!!!! Let's ALL send a brick to congress!!!
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I hate to admit that I wasn't aware of it, but, if it was as you say, I think the Minutemen ought to defend themselves by whatever means necessary and at their disposal.  God Bless  you.
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I am not Mexican, but my husband is and we have a house there too, I cant think of a way to be sure that he fulfills his promises, if you ask anyone in my husbands town in Tlaxcala, they will tell you that all politians lie. They have lost all hope for their government. I would suggest that people NOT let the government go back to PRI, what did they do for the people all those years that they were in office? It will take any person more than one term to fix the problems! I just worry that all this fence building is only going to seperate Mexico and America more, the tension was always there, but it is getting ridiculous!
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Bush says he's going to let Rove go \nbecause he won't leave his \nspecial reporter alone. \n\nJeffy is all mine cries Bush!!!
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"You know, I'm not a supporter of boycotts. I am a supporter of comprehensive immigration," Bush told a Rose Garden news conference, referring to efforts to reach an immigration deal with the US Congress.\n\nBush urged the protesters to show respect.\n\n"You know, I think it's very important for people, when they do express themselves, they continue to do so in a peaceful way, in a respectful way, respectful of ... how highly charged this debate can become," he said.\n\nImmigration has split Congress, the Republican Party and public opinion. Conservatives want the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants returned to Mexico and a fence built along the border.\n\nBush and others want a guest-worker program and a path to citizenship. Most agree some reform is needed to stem the flow of the poor to the world's biggest economy.\n\nBush said "most Americans agree that we've got to enforce our border" but that a temporary guest-worker program is needed as a way to get rid of an illegal smuggling network that brings people across the border and forges documents.