Minuteman National Blog

Are terrorists exploiting our porous borders? We know drug dealers, gang bangers and way too many criminal foreign nationals are creating havoc in our communities and threatening our public safety. Join me, Chris Simcox, president of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps every Sunday evening from 7 till 9 p.m. (Pacific), when we will discuss these and other issues concerning our lack of border security and the problems that affect us all. I guarantee you''ll learn more about the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps from this show than you ever will learn from the mainstream media. We will engage in the most in-depth discussions about our unsecured borders and the threat to our national security and the public safety. “What do we do about illegal immigration” will also be a topic of discussion.

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Minuteman HQ Radio will air on KKNT, The Patriot radio in Phoenix, Arizona. And the best part is that you can listen to Minuteman HQ Radio from where ever you are! Beginning September 3rd you can visit http://www.minutemanhq.com/talkradio on Sunday evenings from 7 pm to 9 pm to listen live. In the future, archived shows will also be available to download at http://www.minutemanhq.com.

Call in numbers: (888) 960-9696 national
(602) 508-0960 local

NOTE: THE FIRST SHOW WITH GUEST TJ BONNER WAS PRE-RECORDED. EVERY SUNDAY FOLLOWING WILL BE LIVE AND HAVE CALL-IN FOR LISTENERS AT THE NUMBERS ABOVE.

I look forward to talking to you!

Sincerely,

Chris Simcox, President
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps

Support BP Agents Ramos and Compean

Support Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Juan Compean of the Fabens, Texas Border Patrol Station. They were recently convicted of crimes in federal court as a result of simply doing their job. If you''re not familiar with their story, read the articles below and you will be astonished at what these two hard working agents have gone through, and the anguish caused to their families.

A relief fund has been set up by the National Border Patrol Council. Please support these two fine young men and their families while undergoing hardships most of us will never understand. Any questions regarding the fund can be emailed to Ramos and Compean Relief Fund at ramos_compean@nbpc.net

Checks should be made out to:
Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean Relief Fund and mailed to:
P.O. Box 47208
Tampa, Florida 33647

Read more about this story in recent articles

Support for border agents floods in

http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_4153806

Convicted border agents finding a lot of supporters

http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_4175420

Convicted border agent tells his story

http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_4141562

Union starts fund for 2 convicted border agents

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-borderpatrol_16tex.ART.State.Edition1.3e02825.html

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Screeing done by employers to verify that they are hiring legally is done at this time on a voluntary basis. As this article points out, both the House and Senate bills contain measures that would make this procedure mandatory.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, our nation''s #1 proponent of illegal hiring, complains that the cost to make this program mandatory would be prohibitive. As the article points out, the cost to the American taxpayer for subsidizing illegal immigration is much higher than the cost would be to implement this program. What they fail to mention is that the cost to create the massive bureaucracy that would be required to implement a guest-worker-amnesty-path-to-citizenship for the estimated 12-30 million illegals already here, then the chain migration of tens of millions more familiy members, makes both of these figures pale by comparison.

From Cyber News Service (CNSNews.com):

Mandatory Pre-Employment Screening Closer to Reality

By Nathan Burchfiel
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
August 28, 2006

(CNSNews.com) - The immigration reform bills in the Senate and House share little in common, but one thing both chambers agree on is the need to verify potential employees'' eligibility to legally work in the United States. Supporters of immigration control say an automated system to do just that is already in place and could be implemented nationwide soon.

The Employment Verification Basic Pilot Program (EVP) was created in November 1997. It was originally offered to employers on a voluntary basis in California, Florida, Illinois, New York and Texas but has since been expanded to allow employers in all 50 states to join.

The EVP allows businesses to verify a job applicant''s eligibility to work -- usually instantly -- by comparing the personal information provided on an application with Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security databases.

The automated process could replace the current mandatory system, which only requires employers to certify that eligibility documents provided by an applicant appear to be genuine.

The EVP compares the data provided on the form completed by employers with government records instead of relying on the employer''s ability to spot forged documents.

The Senate immigration reform bill (S. 2611) mandates that some type of employment verification system be used to ensure that only legal workers are hired in the United States. The House bill ( H.R. 4437) would make the existing program mandatory nationwide.

A Temple University study of the original EVP found that an "overwhelming majority of employers participating found the [program] to be an effective and reliable tool for employment verification."

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To read the entire article: http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200608/NAT20060828a.html

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