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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  MAG: BORDER PROTECTION TO ANNOUNCE ?SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN RESOURCES? IN ARIZONA Sun Mar 27 2005 11:18:30 ET U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials tell TIME?s Brian Bennett that they will announce a ?significant increase in resources? this week to address the influx of illegal immigrants still crossing by land in Arizona. More than 500,000 illegal aliens were caught last year in southern Arizona alone, accounting for 52% of all undocumented migrants detained in the U.S. in 2004, TIME reports. Chris Simcox, a small-town newspaper owner in Sierra Vista, Ariz. less than 10 miles from the Mexican border, is fed up with what he sees as government inaction in the face of lawlessness and a threat to national security. As head of a two-year-old group called the Civil Homeland Defense Corps, he is spearheading a new Minuteman Project that will place volunteers at quarter-mile intervals to watch a busy 50-mile stretch of border for the entire month of April. The goal, he says, is not to confront migrants but to monitor and report their locations to the U.S. Border Patrol. Mexican President Vicente Fox has called groups like Simcox?s ?immigrant hunters,? and President Bush said last week, ?I?m against vigilantes.? Jennifer Allen of the Border Action Network says she is preparing a human-rights complaint against the U.S. government for ?failing to prosecute vigilante groups.? Local officials in Arizona start to worry about hundreds of Minuteman volunteers coming from out of state. Michael Nicely, head of the Border Patrol?s Tucson sector, says the Minuteman Project will ?hamper border safety,? TIME reports. Developing... |
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