Officials Say Minutemen A Security Risk

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<b>Officials Say Minutemen A Security Risk </b>

Border patrol officials say the "Minutemen" are a security nightmare, and because of increasing border violence, they should go home for their own protection.


(Apr 4, 2005) --

MEXICAN-U.S. BORDER-(KSL News) -- Federal Border Patrol agents say they wish the Minutemen vollunteering to patrol the border with Mexico would go home.

Spokesman Jose Maheda says the Minutemen are triggering sensors in the ground that are designed to catch undocumented workers.

"...and now an agent has to go and check on that sensor, and it's just one of these guys walking around activating it. That is just taking away from an agent's primary focus of defending our border."



Minutemen Along the Border


Maheda says agents also have to worry about protecting Minutemen from violent crossers. He says 18,000 caught in the last six months have criminal records in the U.S.

He says his agents carry assault rifles for a reason. 51-percent of illegals caught in the US last year crossed the border in Arizona.

 

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..."18,000 in the last six months have U.S. criminal records" ALL THE MORE DAMN REASON TO HAVE CITIZENS HELPING TO SECURE THE BORDER, ACE!! Also, if this "18,000 in the last six months number is correct, WHY IN THE HELL IS GEORGE BUSH AND THE CONGRESS NOT SENDING U.S. TROOPS, FEDERAL MARSHALS, STATE POLICE Etc., to assist in this INVASION?

..." his agents carry assault rifles"... Oh, Mr. Agent man, there NOT "ASSAULT RIFLES", THERE HOMELAND SECURITY TOOLS, COMPREHENDE, AMIGO? Sounds like this "agent/spokesman" doesn't like others looking over his shoulder checking his work. Well, welcome to the real world and it IS a life or death situation and if I were Jose' Mahende, I'd take ALL the help I could get...........

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I thought the minute men were going to stay back one mile? Surely they don't have sensors that far back. I am not convinced this article author spoke to a real border patrol.