Is the Border Patrol in favor of Minutemen?
965337
Uh, they (minutemen) were ask to leave our border town, official reason; we already have a border patrol who can do the job....
1155541
Its sad that the only defense those opposed to the minutemen project can come up with is foul racist claims that are simply untrue.  They stick with the media though and that helps the vast majority to distance themeselves from the minutemen.\n\n1)  Tell people the truth - they are not racist they are hispanics, blacks and rednecks that want to protect our border and have the rule of law enforced.\n\n2)  Tell them what happened in the 80's when 3 million illegal immigrants were given amnesty.  Now 20 years later 12 million are poised to get it.  Tell them no; tell them to vote against liberal Republicans and liberal Democrats that could give it up.  12 million this year means 40 million in 2025.  \n\n3)  Put up a yard sign, donate a little money, write letters to the editors and help any candidate in your area that opposes illegal immigration, that opposes amnesty, and will protect and secure our borders.
501202
agreed  good point they should take a page out our book ! the minutemen are great Americans\n\nto post below then come legal! all the illegals go home and try what you have learned !
1042837
Originally,a Minuteman was an infantryman during the Revolutionary War (for the colonies). The name came from the fact that they were known to be a able to reload and fire their muskets three times a minute. Now, the Minutemen are a group a quasi-vigilantes who patrol the US-Mexico border to dissuade illegal immigrants from entering the country.\n\nAnd there's the sexual euphimism related below, of course.
527509
Yes\nHe Is Hearing The Demands Of The Citizens\nHe Has No Choice But To Comply\n\nIf  The Federal Govt Does NOT Put A Military Presense At The Border\nThe Citizens Will Put An Armed Militia At The Border\n\nBush And His People Are Aware Of This
716624
I know i totally agree with you.I was close to the border once and there like  invading.My mom says that they have to make a living to.I say if they want to come over come over the right way.
987857
Yes, there's one in my city.  For ursurping the sovergnty of the United States of America, our Congress has divided us, misrepresented us, has weakened the United States, has set us on a course to extinguish the American citizen, has taken aim against our Eagle, and her spirit cries out against their tyranny.\n\nI beleive the minutemen the first of such organizations for informed citizens.  When you pass laws against your nation and for and above the soverengty of another, it's citizens have been aggreiged, and shall not stand.\n\nI pledge allience to the Flag of Mexico which flys over the United States of America and to the tyranny for which it stands, multinationational, without God's approval, divisible, with unjust laws and injustice for all.\n\nWe had all hang together, for surely we will hang separately\n-Ben Franklin
501482
Physically, no.  The United States does have the power and ability to defend its borders.\n\nThere is the matter of political willpower.  That is where the weakness lies.  The politicians see the immigrants illegally coming over the border in one of two ways: potential voters and potential employees.  Either way, neither political party will do much more than lip service to shore up the Border Patrol to prevent illegal crossings.
274877
In 2004 10,000 federal agents (CBP) working on the border apprehended 1.1 million people attempting to cross the border.\n\nHave you ever been to the border between the US and Mexico?  It is very long (over 2000 miles) and extremely in hospitable. I know because I was stationed in a recon unit to watch a portion of it.  Even if a fence is built, there is no way to watch the fence all the time, and any fence can be breached.  Do the math....to adequately watch the border with real time guards (that is someone who can respond to an immediate breach) you would need a guard tower every 1/4 mile (depending on terrain).  That is 8000 guard towers.  To staff that 24 hours/365, with two agents, you would need 64,000 agents, plus another large group to actually round up the illegals, process them, and detain them.  Although some might like to, we can't shoot them or abuse them, so this is expensive.  \n\nBy my rapid calculations, we would need about 100,000 more law enforcement personnel (at a cost of 8 billion dollars per year, not counting facilities).  We would also have to build a more user-friendly infrastructure along the border, which, by the way has lots of private land along it.  Yes, we could uset he military to staff these towers, but wait, by the constitution we can't have active duty military or reserve make arrests (posse comitatus).  Yes, they can watch and radio (like we did in the Sonoran Desert years ago), but then you end up with nasty situations like the Marine who shot and killed a Mexican boy who had strayed over the border with some sheep.\n\nPart of the problem is that while people whine about this, they love to get cheap labor.  Many businesses and private families intentionally employ illegal aliens because they save money.  The pressure that special interest groups representing certain of these folks is certain to make it difficult to stop the supply.  Congress is about the consider a new bill to have guest workers, like in Germany with the Turks.  After all, you don't really want a job as a fruit picker, do you, or as an office cleaner...got to leave those for the migrant workers!
962523
They already are a hate group (anti-Hispanic) and they have no legal authority to act as they do. The fact that some law enforcement agencies may overlook their illegal activities does not change the issue: The Minutemen's goal is to instill fear into Hispanics/Mexicans (whether legal or illegal) through intimidation.\n\nRemember, the Ku Klux Klan started as a vigilante group whose stated purpose was to "enforce the  law of the land." Sympathetic law enforcement agencies overlooked their abominations as well.\n\nI don't doubt some of the things you've mentioned (murder and burying the evidence) have happened already.\n\nNationalist and Fascist extremism ALWAYS turns into a disaster for innocent and right-minded people. WWII was the result of the actions of people (German, Italian, and Japanese) who had virtually the same mind-set as the Minutemen.
1151085
SealRBorders,  thank you for asking and please allow me to say....HELL YES!  I AM SICK AND TIRED OF FREELOADING MEXICANS!!!  \n\nLike you, I hate our government also.  They are so useless and spineless.  The Minutemen are not vigilantes.  I find it ironic that dumbass Bush can call them that when they operate within the boundaries of the law.  Yet, he wants to give millions of criminal Mexicans amnesty.  He seriously needs a dictionary.\n\nFor those of you who don't like these comments, we are Americans who have a right to say what we want to say, if you don't like it, please GO BACK TO MEXICO.  We don't want you here.
1055547
HECK YES!!!!! I would join them in a heartbeat!!!!!!!!!!!! In  fact,i have been considering it already.\n All these LOYAL, patriotic, citizens are doing, is trying to secure a section of our border,because the government will NOT do it's job of protecting the U.S. citizens!!!!!! THEY are too busy catering to the illegals!\n\nAnd yes,the Minutemen do a terrific job of reporting sightings of illegals to border patrol. They have never taken the law into their own hands and arrested anyone,and regardless to the popular LIES on here, there has never been ONE incident of the Minutemen being involved in shooting, maiming,or killing anyone!!\nIf you talk to the border patrol agents themselves,THEY will tell you what a big help the Minutemen have been to them in stemming the crossings of ilegals! It's their supervisors who REFUSE to admit it!!! And,when you have our OWN President calling the Minutemen derogatory names,what else can you expect his FLUNKYS to do??!!!
489552
Its already getting across the Borders into our Country. The gangs and roving band of thugs that have freedom to roam and rampage are coming across when ever they want. They run drugs, people and what ever contraband they want. The Border Patrol is a joke, because there is NEVER enough people to police the border. A few hundred people for 4000 miles of border? LETS GET REAL!  One person for a hundred miles of border aint gonna cut it.  Cameras and sensors record them coming over, but, it doesnt matter, they do what they want.\n\nImmagration is a joke, and the joke is making us look bad. \nUntil the Government takes an active stand, (and they wont, because they know which way the wind blows for votes), we will be a free border with a few sent back for the Media.\n\nJesse
616044
I'm a liberal Democrate and I have to say that we must secure our borders.  The Sheriff of Maricope is doing what the Federal government should be doing.  We must have controll of who comes into the country to remain free.  This doesn't mean throw all the "illegals" who are here now, out, and do not close our borders to legal immigration, but we must stop new "illegals" from gaining entry into our nation.  If you or I break a law, we pay the price, well, so should the people breaking our laws by sneaking over our borders.
513340
The only problem with military border patrol is it will create hostility just like the Gaza strip.Picture tanks and armed soldiers.What we should is get more qualified patrol officers and as far as katrina we had fema and they failed them the a$$holes tax dollars gone to funerals.But you make a Great debate they may do a better job then the people we pay to do these jobs now.
728646
I do not agree with you. The Minutemen are patriotic Americans who are doing the job our government should have done a long time ago.If they are an infection, may there never be a cure.
1100045
I don't know about the Border Patrol, however, I am dead certain that big business and Bush want to leave a 'hole in the fence'.  That is why they keep pooh-pooh ing barriers at the border.  Those would remain even when public attention is elsewhere, whereas staffing could drop easily over time.