"Minuteman" Project Begins This Week

The Minuteman Project begins in southern Arizona later this week. The project is made up of volunteers from all over the country who are congregating near Tucson and will be observing illegal border crossings in Cochise County:

The Minuteman Project is a monthlong endeavor where organizers plan to deploy civilian volunteers at Cochise County's U.S.-Mexico border, in turn reporting any illegal border activity to the U.S. Border Patrol. The project is focusing on the San Pedro Valley, a hot spot for illegal border crossings

More about the project can be found here.

According to The Washington Times:

Members of a violent Central America-based gang have been sent to Arizona to target Minuteman Project volunteers, who will begin a monthlong border vigil this weekend to find and report foreigner sneaking into the United States, project officials say.

James Gilchrist, a Vietnam veteran who helped organize the vigil to protest the federal government's failure to control illegal immigration, said he has been told that California and Texas leaders of Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, have issued orders to teach "a lesson" to the Minuteman volunteers.

What we have here is a group of concerned citizens, who, last week, were called "vigilantes" by President Bush, being threatened by an illegal violent gang. Should be interesting!

La Shawn Barber asks: Who Will Protect the Minuteman Volunteers?