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Minuteman Border Fence
Planning is Completed
Ready to Start Second Site

An Update from the Minuteman Fence Project Manager

Chris Simcox has kept his promise and volunteers have begun building the Minuteman Border Fence. Chris has asked me (Peter Kunz) to give you a quick update on the activities and planning for the current fence project and our next site that starts in July.

People in opposition to the fence who are not part of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps have been talking to each other in emails and on the radio—and we have a case of the blind leading the blind. No one has called the Project Manager to get the facts, which follow.

First, let me say thanks to the brave ranchers who are stepping up to put their lives on the line to stop the illegal invasion. They live and work within spitting distance of the Mexican border every day. These brave men and women are working side by side with Minutemen in this war zone they call home, allowing us to secure America.

Second, let’s be clear. Not every single mile of the border or every ranch or rancher is the same. The full-on Israeli-style Security Fence is our primary design and first choice for construction. However, when circumstances dictate adjustment to a Border Fence with barbed wire and a vehicle barrier or another design to meet local requirements, we will make the necessary adaptations—and keep building.

Our plan: Do the job until our government does its duty.

Announce the need for the Minuteman Border Fence.

Ask again that President Bush do his duty and secure the border.

Schedule a groundbreaking to get the Border Fence launched.

Begin raising the $55 million needed for 70 miles of fence in AZ.

Work with ranchers to design fence to meet specific private landsite requirements.

Get steel and contractors to manage the sites.

Register and vet fencing volunteers.

Build a Minuteman Fence Security Plan to patrol fencing.

Set up Volunteer Crews administration and crew management.

Continue to build fence as fast as resources allow.

Start more sites in TX, CA and NM as donations and volunteer capacity permit.

Continue Border Watch and Fence Operations until the border is secure.

The Facts:
A Comprehensive Design

Numerous fence design variations will be required to effectively deal with border crossings by illegal aliens, drug dealers and livestock. Derivation from the primary design is necessary to accommodate local ranchers’ specific terrain, topography, herds and other factors.

The important point to remember is that MCDC will not let Vincente Fox tell us or the US ranchers we are working with where or what we can build. No matter what the fence design, MCDC will erect a well-built fence—and fences work. We know they are effective, because we see the results; incursions reduced, and all of the opposition groups and open border supporters screaming to stop the fence.

~SNIP~

To read the entire announcement, click on the title link.

To discuss this topic on our Minuteman Forum, click here:

http://forum.minutemanhq.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=889

To President Bush: 'We don't trust you'

At the May 27 groundbreaking of the new Minuteman fence to be constructed on private land along America's southern border, about 300 Minutemen and several dignitaries met to officially launch the privately-funded undertaking.

Among those attending were Minuteman Civil Defense Corps leader Chris Simcox, Rep. Steve King of Iowa, Arizona governor candidate Don Goldwater, and Alan Keyes--all of whom addressed the group, along with a line-up of other secure-border supporters.

Dr. Keyes delivered the keynote speech.

Below is the text of Dr. Keyes' remarks on this historic occasion.

Click here to see a full gallery of photos from the Renew America website

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ALAN KEYES: Thank you very much. God bless you. God bless you all. We always say that. But there are times, I think, when we ought to stand back and realize that the truth of the matter is that sometimes when we say, "God bless you," what we're really saying is you are a blessing from God.

And right now as America faces what I think is the greatest crisis of our institution in its history, across the board, one of the most important examples of that crisis is right here. When a country loses the will to defend its borders, when a country loses the will to assert its identity, when a country loses the will to stand in defense of its way of life, that country is doomed. And I think all of us have to be fearful, if you listen to what's coming out of Washington and coming from our president, and so forth, that we are hearing the confirming echoes of that doom coming down the corridors of our present and the future that we should be leaving our children and our grandchildren.

Now, I'm here to tell you right now that however we may sometimes feel discouraged, that however we may sometimes think that there is no hope, you need to remember that when we pray to God for a blessing, you have come forward to be the answer. You have come forward to be the defenders.

[cheer, applause]

You have come forward to be the examples of the American spirit that built this country and will defend its future.

And we also have to be clear about something else, because part of me feels like, as you very well know, we shouldn't be here at all, the truth of the matter. After all, we go through the motions every few years, we send folks off to Washington, D.C., we elect them to the House, we elect the Senate. What is their first duty? To listen to them these days, you'd think that their first duty would be to serve the money bags who put money into their political coffers--but that is not their first duty. To listen to them these days, you would think that their first duty is to kowtow to foreign potentates and presidents, like Vicente Fox, instead of the people of the United States. But that is not their first duty.

[applause]

To listen to them talk today, you would think their first duty was to respond to the needs and wishes of all those folks throughout the world who wish that they were in America. But that's not their first duty.

The oath that they swear, every single one of them, is to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.

[applause]

And that Constitution is not the work of foreign governments, it is not the work of foreign people, it is the work of the people of the United States. It is to us that they owe their allegiance.

[applause]

We are left to our obvious conclusion, if, as the president himself said--and I don't care, did any folks in this country realize how breathtaking it was for the President of the United States, well into the sixth year of his terms of office, to look the American people in the eye, and as if it were a really fantastic and wonderful revelation that he had just discovered--to tell us that we do not have control of our borders?

[laughter]

Now, this is very good, don't you think? This is like the fellow who is hired to guard your property telling you that you don't have any security!

I'm thinking to myself, "Well, Mr. President, you've been at work for six years now. I'd like to know what you've been doing with all that time!"

He tells us now that he's going to get to work, that he's going to do the job that he should have been doing all along. And what's even more appalling is that after September 11th, you would have thought it would have been fairly clear--they tell us we've got to secure our ports of entry, they tell us we've got to secure the airports, they tell us we've got to seriously examine everybody who's coming through into the country--and meanwhile they have left the southern border of the United States wide open to every individual who is willing under the cover of darkness and deceit to come into this country.

[applause]

And they acknowledge hundreds of folks coming across every day, and we're supposed to believe that in the midst of all those people, they are just wonderfully innocent, hopeful immigrants coming across to seek a better life.

I think that in the midst of a lot of those people, there would have to be a few of those folks who are coming across to take our lives, not to seek a better life for themselves!

So, what do we do? Well, what we are told we ought to do, given the Senate's bill, is we ought to deal with the problem of all of the illegal folks who have come--and the things that they need in order to regularize their lives--and then maybe somewhere down the road, a little piecemeal here and there, they'll deal with the security of our border. And that shows you where their allegiance lies--and it doesn't lie with the people of this country. Because, if they took that allegiance seriously, there would only be one priority for the President, for the Senate, for the House--as they have, thankfully, shown us--and that priority is clear: security first, security now, security before anything else will be considered.

[cheer, applause]

And everything else they offer us, as [Rep.] Steve King was just telling us--here we are, sort of like the young lady who is taking care of the first child by her boyfriend, who then tells her, "Don't worry about birth control. Trust me."

[laughter]

Well, we're taking care of having to deal with the problem of millions of people who have come into this country as a result of the dereliction of duty of these political elites. And they wish us to accept what they told us in '86 and '94 and every time they turned around: "Trust us! Trust us! Trust us!" I think we need to send them a good, clear, strong message: "We don't trust you anymore!"

[applause]

And I want to say it outright. I'm a Republican, . . . but it's about time that we look G.W. Bush in the eye and tell him, "We don't trust you, either!"

[applause]

Not on this issue! Not now!

What we need, in order to restore our trust is not your promises, not your talk, not your 614 pages of legislation you don't intend to enforce. What we need now, as the only thing that we will accept, is results that finally get this border back under control of the American people, where it belongs!

[applause]

Here's why you give me particular hope. You give me particular hope, because I look back at the history of the country, and though they tend to forget it, America wasn't built by the government. The government was built by the people.

We do remember that, don't we?

Before it extended its reach, people had to reach out. They had to explore, they had to clear, they had to build, sometimes they had to fight and struggle and give their lives. We stand on ground that was not first claimed by the American government, it was first claimed by the courage, the ingenuity, the perseverance of the American people.

[applause]

And as it was claimed in the first place, so it must be defended now--and that's why you're here.

You're here to remind folks who think that every time an American steps forward to take the initiative now, they should be told to wait for the government to act, wait for the government handout, wait for the government research, wait for the government to do it--we have never waited on the government before, and we're not going to start now.

[applause]

And though we all may have very good reason, given the record over the last several decades, to not trust the political elites, somebody explain to me why it is that any of them would look at the American people, and when we step forward and say we want to help in our own defense--we want to do what's necessary to defend our own property, our own families, our own homes, our own lives in the way that has been our great tradition--can you tell me on what grounds they dare to tell us that they don't trust us?

I think it's about time that they acted like the people who built this country in the first place, people who aren't willing to trust the government first, not when we can trust to our own courage, to our own work, to our own discipline, to our own character.

[applause]

I want to tell you, Chris [Simcox], given the things that I've seen you've been doing for Americans everywhere--because you've been reasserting the truth of the sovereignty of our people, you have been reasserting truth that, yes, it is, as Lincoln said, "government of the people, by the people, for the people," and we will still step up to the plate to get the job done.

[applause]

[unintelligible] that's what these [unintelligible] of defense symbolize. They try to pretend that it's some kind of barrier, that it's against somebody who is in Mexico or anywhere else in the world. That's not true. We are acting for our people, we are acting for our country, we are acting for our children, we are acting for our posterity.

We are doing what Americans have always done, and in doing so, I don't think we deserve the distrust and fear of our leaders. We deserve not only their understanding and their support, we deserve that they will fall in line, as they have had to do before, and accept the leadership of the American people.

[applause]

I just want to tell you that I have been both moved and proud to be able to work in any capacity at all to help the folks who are organizing this great effort, to take the lead and to reassert the spirit of our country.

They are doing so, I think, with an admirable sense that what they're doing is not only on behalf of just themselves or their region or their states or their own ambition. It's on behalf of all of us. This is why I am reminded of what it means to be a people who not only share a common identity, but who will serve our common good and work to a common purpose.

I sometimes have to fear, when I look at what our politicians do, that some of them have entirely forgotten that at the end of the day, that's what citizenship is about. That's what their job is about. It's not everybody for themselves, grabbing what little piece of the pie we can. It's everybody showing a willingness, yes, to take care of ourselves, while we take care of the business of our communities, and our families, and our country. And that's what you exemplify. The true spirit of American self-government.

So, what we're doing here is not just building a fence. We are rebuilding a character. We are redefining a people. We are reminding ourselves and the people of our country and people all over the world that the American people have made a difference. Because, though we come from every voice and color and creed and kind, we stand together now on a common creed of self-government and liberty that has allowed us to make the difference.

[applause]

And the good spirit and the good example--I think you're going to move people all over this country. You have already started a debate and discussion that is redefining the terms of this issue and will continue to do so. But even more than that, you are going to become the focal point of what will begin to revitalize American politics. That will uphold people of [strength] and faith and of courageous folks who are standing with them.

[applause]

But we know that everyday, in politics today, that they may think it's all right to serve their special interest and their ethnic masters, and all of this, we are going to insist once again on a politics that serves our nation, that serves our people, that serves our principles, that serves our future. We will take nothing less.

[applause]

It's a great beginning. . . . I am reminded that it's only a beginning. But Aristotle said, with some wisdom, I think, that "The beginning is more than half the whole." What he meant by that, I think, is quite clearly demonstrated. To finish the job, you must have the whole commitment, heart, and faith that will get the job done. With your courage over the last several years, you have shown that whole--that holy commitment.

And I believe that it is one of those sacred moments that God will bless. So, I say it again: God bless you. But I say, as well, may God continue to bless all of us in this country for the work that you have done, for the things that you will achieve. I don't know what you're getting at the moment, but I'm sure of this: in the fullness of time there will come those Americans who will know what liberty means, because you have fought the good fight--who will stand within a country still secure in its boundaries, because you have stood for their defense, and who will breathe to you and to God Almighty a word of thanks that will come from their hearts--hearts you may never know, but who will remember you as the generation that began the recovery of American greatness.

God bless you.

[applause]

END TRANSCRIPT

To discuss this speech on the Minuteman Forum, click on the title link!

What a great and glorious day! These photos were taken at sunset last night--the first photos of the fence going up along the Palominas, AZ and Mexico border.

The first fence will stretch for 10 miles. The landowner has made some modifications to the original design, as he has cattle and can not deal with trenches, etc. So we will be building 10 miles of fortified fencing with rails, barbed wire, concertina wire and railroad ties for vehicle barriers. We do not have a graphic of this design requested by the landowner, but we will soon have pictures!

The first full security fencing of the original design will be up on a nearby landowner's property as soon as we can get the steel order placed and shipped.

Will have more photos later from the groundbreaking ceremony today.

Volunteers to BREAK GROUND in AZ!!!

Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) will be conducting a weekend border operation in Palominas, AZ that includes a border watch, Minuteman Border Fence Ground Breaking and repair of existing fence on the US Mexico border.

MCDC is moving forward with plans to build the Minuteman Border Fence. President Bush’s response will not secure the border and the ground breaking will be done on 5/27/2006 Memorial Day weekend in conjunction with the AZ Chapter Memorial weekend border watch operation. We have been working hard to put plans in place for this historic undertaking. Please read the following we have tried to include everything possible for questions about who, what, where and when below.

Many have talked of building a secure fence between Mexico and the United States. Now Chris Simcox and MCDC is taking action again and doing the job the Federal Government will not do. We are overwhelmed with calls asking:

What can I do to help right NOW?

Donate to Build the Minuteman Border Fence

https://secure.responseenterprises.com/mmfence/?a=100

VOLUNTEER to Build the Minuteman Border Fence

http://www.minutemanhq.com/bf/volunteer.php

WHO:

Due to security concerns and respect for the private ranch property made available to MCDC, only registered Minuteman MCDC Volunteers will be able to participate in the weekend ground breaking operation as well as the AZ weekend border watch.

Go to http://www.minutemanborderfence.com to volunteer and see the latest posts.

WHAT:

Ground Breaking:

Minuteman Volunteers will conduct a Minuteman Border Fence Ground Breaking Ceremony as well as build the fence to local ranch requirements

WHEN:

Minuteman Border Fence Schedule:

Friday Evening 5/26 – Movie under the Stars in Tombstone, AZ
Cries from the Border. A powerful film documenting the destruction of one community in Arizona by the assault of the illegal alien invasion of the USA.
Director Mercedes Maharris will attend.
Open to the general public

Directions to Tombstone, AZ
From Tucson I-10 E via the ramp on the LEFT toward EL PASO. 38.3 miles , I-10-BL / AZ-80 exit- EXIT 303- toward BENSON / DOUGLAS. 0.5 miles, Stay STRAIGHT to go onto I-10 BL E / AZ-80 E / W 4TH ST. Continue to follow AZ-80 E. 25.4 miles, Turn RIGHT onto 3RD ST. 0.1 miles Turn LEFT onto TOUGHNUT ST. <0.1 miles, End at Tombstone

Saturday 5/27 –
Registered Minuteman Volunteers Only.

7 AM – 9 AM – All registered participants check in at the Palominas Trading Post and will be escorted to the ranch after check in.

10 AM – Noon - Groundbreaking Ceremony – includes MCDC volunteers and guests installing new fence and base poles for a 150’ security fence model

Master of Ceremonies - Stacey O’Connell (MCDC)

MCDC Speakers –
Chris Simcox President
Carmen Mercer, Vice President
Al Garza, Executive Director

Additional Guest Speakers -
Colin Hanna – President, WeNeedaFence.com
Don Goldwater - A Minuteman and Candidate for AZ Governor
Steve King – US Congressman, Iowa 5th District
Ambassador Alan Keyes – Chairman Declaration Alliance

12 Noon - Lunch provided at the border
1-3 PM – Continue to install new fence

Some numbers:

Over 1126 people have signed up to volunteer to build the Minuteman Border Fence.
More than $380,000 has been donated to a dedicated Minuteman Border Fence fund.
National talk radio shows and local talk radio shows are promoting the fence.
We are planning to raise $10M for the next phase of the fence.

The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps welcomes all those who want to secure America as it leads the way with a bold initiative. One operation alone cannot secure the Border.

What can I do to help right NOW?

Donate to Build the Minuteman Border Fence

https://secure.responseenterprises.com/mmfence/?a=100

VOLUNTEER to Build the Minuteman Border Fence

http://www.minutemanhq.com/bf/volunteer.php

MCDC will continue to man our posts and watch and report as the Minuteman Border Fence is built. Minuteman Civil Defense Corps has shown that illegal aliens can be stopped with dedicated volunteers sitting in lawn chairs for 30 days. Building a Minuteman Border Fence will help protect all of the American people 365 days every year.

“Should President Bush and Congress fail to fulfill their oaths of office, and meet their Constitutional obligation to protect these United States from invasion, we, the sovereign people of the United States, having suffered a long train of abuses at the hand of a willfully insolent government, do hereby declare that these States ought, should and will be protected by American Minutemen.” – Chris Simcox

Sincerely for America,

Chris Simcox, President
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps

If you cannot attend and want to donate or volunteer for the ongoing effort to build the Minuteman Border Fence go to the following link:

Online http://www.minutemanhq.com/bf/

Call 520.829.3112 to volunteer.

Or Mail Checks to:

Minuteman Border Fence
Dept Code 100
PO Box 131808
Houston, TX 77219

Minuteman Civil Defense Corps

AZ Memorial Day Muster 2006

There is a post out along the Arizona/Mexico border that has been longing for the presence of a Minuteman. Daily, this vacant post sees thousands of illegal aliens come across our nations borders, unguarded, unchallenged. Our Arizona border is calling you, the volunteer Minuteman, to come stand and keep watch over her. Will you come for a weekend? Come inspect your nations open border policy in action.

DATE: May 26, 27 & 28th

LOCATION: Palominas Arizona, Trading Post Café

TIME: First Shift Friday at 6PM

SECTOR CHIEF: Stacey O’Connell, AZ State Director

This is a three day weekend operation. Come for a day, come for three, but come.

LOCATION FOR MEET-UP POINT: You will arrive at the Trading Post Café in Palominas, Arizona (Cochise Co) where tent and RV camping is available. No hook ups. Hotels are available nearby in Sierra Vista and Bisbee. Upon your arrival, please check in at the admin desk.

All Minutemen needing training, classes will be given. First class will run at 3PM on Friday. We will also have one at 9AM and 4PM Saturday. You will be required to attend the class prior to taking a post if you are a new Minuteman. We welcome new volunteers as well, they can register and take a class on site. Background checks will be done. No violent felons or racists need apply. If training is needed, please go to:

http://www.minutemanhq.com/pdf_files/training_manual2.pdf (Training Manual)

and

http://www.minutemanhq.com/hq/sop.php (Standard Operating Procedures "SOP")

There you can print your own copy of the Training Manual and the SOP. You need to bring these with you for your training class.

Groundbreaking on the building of the fence: location and time will be announced at the start of our operations.

Fridays shift will run 6PM-Midnight.

Saturday & Sunday shifts will run 8AM-5PM. Night Shift will run 5PM-Midnight.

Please come well prepared for these shifts. You are welcome to stand as many shifts as you like, day and night. Please dress for the climate, hot in the day, and cold at night! Cell phone, two way radios, lawn chair, video/camera equipment, binos, spotters, night vision would all be appreciated. Sidearms are allowed, no long arms please. Please prepare a cooler of drinks and food/snacks for your post. You may also want a thermos of coffee as well, bring what you can to be comfortable on post.

We ask that all MM RSVP if you are coming. Please RSVP via email to AZCactus@aol.com

Directions for meetup location:

Off I-10 East, take Sierra Vista Exit, go South. Stay on Hwy until you get to 92 bypass. Follow it until you get to Palominas. Trading Post is on your right hand side.

Semper Vigilans.

Stacey O’Connell
AZ State Director
MCDC-AZ

Jerry Seper, investigative reporter for the Washington Times, was down in Three Points, AZ, for the wrap-up of the MCDC April 24/7 operations on Sunday. His report follows.

THANK YOU to all of the Minuteman volunteers who gave of their time, paid their own way and stood vigil at the border twenty-four hours a day for the month of April. A press release will go out today on the final numbers sighted and reported to the Border Patrol by Minutemen. In some areas the traffic increased over ELEVEN TIMES from the last 24/7 operations in 2005, in the historically high-traffic period of October.

The Border Patrol BUREAUCRATS are trying to tell the press and the American people that April is a high-traffic month to account for the nationwide surge in numbers--but October is ALSO a historically high traffic period, after the summer heat lets up, which allows for easier passage across the scorching desert. April 2006 numbers released today will compare to the same areas covered in the historically high-traffic period of October 2005 in the same locations.

It is the false promise of AMNESTY that has Spanish language radio stations, the Mexican government and pro-illegal organizers encouraging the illegal aliens to cross the border in droves.

Preparations are underway for the Memorial Day weekend groundbreaking for the first of what will be many fencing operations along the border with Mexico.

You can volunteer to help build the fence here:

VOLUNTEER TO HELP THE MINUTEMEN BUILD THE FENCE

You can donate to help build the fence here:

DONATE TO HELP THE MINUTEMEN BUILD THE FENCE

From today's Washington Times:

Monthlong border vigil wraps up
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
May 1, 2006

THREE POINTS, Ariz. -- They were better organized this year and more strategically deployed. Much of the electronic and communications equipment they desperately needed but didn't have last year was in place.

And in the past 30 days, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps reported more than 2,000 aliens trying to sneak illegally into the United States from observation posts on the U.S.-Mexico border and in several areas along the Canadian border, about 40 percent of whom were apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol.

~SNIP~

"But the people who matter, the illegal aliens and those who bring them across the border who have had to change their tactics because of us, know we're out here, and that's what's important," said Bill Foust, one of the Minuteman's security bosses at the organization's remote desert base camp 15 miles south of here.

"And the Border Patrol field agents know we're here, and many of them have gone out of their way to thank us for bringing needed attention to the problem of illegal immigration," said Mr. Foust, an Arizona resident and a veteran of three 30-day patrols in the past year. "It is us who should be thanking them for what they do every day for America despite often being outmanned and outgunned."

~SNIP~

To read the entire article, click on the title link!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

MINUTEMEN TO BUILD ARIZONA-MEXICO BORDER FENCE

(PHOENIX, AZ) April 20, 2006 – Chris Simcox, President of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (“MCDC”), today announced plans by the MCDC to work with local Arizona land owners to build border security fencing on private land along the border with Mexico.

At present, six private land owners have partnered with the Minutemen for the commencement of construction of border fencing on their land. Surveillance cameras on the fencing will be monitored via computer by registered Minutemen across the country. We have chosen a fence design that is based on the Israeli fences in Gaza and on the West Bank that have cut terrorist attacks there by 95% or more. In order to be effective, a fence should not be easy to compromise by climbing over it with a ladder, cutting through it with wire cutters, ramming it with a vehicle, or tunneling under it undetected. No fence can be a 100% impenetrable barrier—but a good design will be time-consuming enough to get through that Border Patrol agents can be alerted to get to a point of attempted intrusion before the intrusion can be completed. Our design does this. You can see it at www.WeNeedAFence.com

Two construction companies to date have offered to inaugurate groundbreaking, coordinate volunteer construction crews and donate the use of the necessary heavy construction equipment.

The groundbreaking will begin in Arizona on Memorial Day weekend, unless in the interim President Bush deploys National Guard and reserve troops to immediately secure the out-of-control southern border.

The fencing will be built with privately donated funds, engineering and labor and will be used as an example to educate the public about the feasibility and efficacy of fencing to secure America’s borders from illegal incursion by aliens and international criminal cartels. A non-profit organization dedicated specifically to this purpose will facilitate and administer donations for construction of the fence. Monetary and in-kind contributions for this effort will go directly into building materials for this private, volunteer fencing project.

Simcox issued the following statement on the MCDC border fence project:

“President Bush once said he would not wait on events to act to protect our country. He has been president for over five years, and still he has not acted to secure our territorial frontier, even as his administration admits the United States government does not have operational control of our borders.

“On Memorial Day weekend, the American people will exercise their God-given rights to protect their lives and property by initiating construction of fencing along the border on private land unless President Bush immediately deploys National Guard and/or reserve troops along the breadth of the Southwestern border line with Mexico, thereby retaking the region from the international criminal cartels who presently are in operational control of the border. Additional support is available from military units presently training to guard the borders in other countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan and they should immediately relocate their training to the Southwestern border.

“The existing border crisis is a dereliction of duty by those entrusted with American security and sovereignty, leaving America vulnerable to terrorist infiltration and an unprecedented crime wave caused by drug smugglers, rapists, thieves, human traffickers and murderers who currently cross our border at will.

“President Bush and Congress have taxed the wages of the American people to pay for the protection of our country, and expended those dollars to subsidize millions of low-wage illegal workers with housing, education, medical care, and welfare benefits. Yet even the most basic level of national territorial integrity requires that our elected representatives secure the border. Should they continue to refuse to do their Constitutional duty, the Minutemen will again step into the breach and commence building the required border barriers on private land and with private donations.

“Should President Bush and Congress fail to fulfill their oaths of office, and meet their Constitutional obligation to protect these United States from invasion, we, the sovereign people of the United States, having suffered a long train of abuses at the hand of a willfully insolent government, do hereby declare that these States ought, should and will be protected by American Minutemen.”

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We Need A Fence design: