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Another indication of the effectiveness of the MinuteMen project:
Now that the volunteer manpower has withdrawn, residents in the area already notice an immediate uptick in the numbers of illegals. Interviews with Mexicans in the border towns of Naco and Nogales show that thousands were just biding their time until the well-publicized event passed and are now set to continue their nightly attempts to cross.
...”The minutemen did a great job of shutting off illegal immigration here, as long as they were here,” says Dawn Walker Garner, who lives on a five-acre farm near the border. “Now they are gone and the crossing have started up en masse again.”
MinuteMan II is set for October:
Nonetheless, organizers of the initiative believe it laid the foundation for a much broader vigil from California to Texas in October. Some 14,000 have already signed up for it. Future plans might include monitoring the northern border as well – in Vermont, Michigan, North Dakota, and Idaho.
“We established a beachhead in Arizona and now we are going to conquer the whole island,” says James Gilchrist, cofounder of the project. “We did in 190 days of planning what all of the lobbyists couldn’t do in 10 years and Congress couldn’t do in 40 years – effectively protect the border from incoming illegals, terrorists, and drug traffickers.”
