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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: Buck: Minutemen ride again in nation's defense Buck: Minutemen ride again in nation's defense We are Minutemen. On April 19, 1775, the originals marched on Lexington and Concord over a different beef with another George. Two hundred forty years later, we 21st century Minutemen have determined to stand vigil on the southwestern border in Arizona for individual commitments of one to 30 days each. A thousand of us have volunteered for the Minuteman Project (MMP), to work under the auspices of Civil Homeland Defense (CHD). Like our predecessors, we have determined that our nation's sovereignty is worth our lives, fortunes and sacred honor. This time, however, there are a whole lot of grandmas and grandpas sitting around in lawn chairs defending their country. Without seeing the devastation in the Southwest firsthand or talking to the locals, it is hard to fully grasp the reality of the "contributions" illegals make there in pursuit of their "American dream" at our expense. In the last nine months, I have made three trips to the border to work with CHD and now MMP. Try to imagine areas, off of highways and in neighborhoods, where illegals wait for smuggling rides. These lay-up areas are littered with clothes, food, water bottles, medicine, human waste, black ski masks, etc. There are bus stops for American kids that are only 10 yards from pick-up spots for illegals. Then there's the nightly cacophony of not only dogs barking at the illegals and drugs smugglers, but the screaming of women who are being raped by their coyote guides. Every lay-up area has discarded women's underwear strewn about. American youth are enticed and corrupted by the lure of quick, easy and big money for dropping off food to and providing rides for these people. Smuggling vans, trucks and cars tear down the highway with reckless abandon. Locals are always on the look-out for all of these things. Our presence has almost eliminated human trafficking in the 23-mile sector of Cochise County we are patrolling, which has consequently brought almost-forgotten peace and quiet to the tearfully grateful residents and ranchers who loathe the thought of our departure. One local, whose earthly departure those connected to CHD and MMP now mourn, is Henry Harvey. This patriarch of civilian border patrol groups, himself a former Border Patrol agent, taught the locals who lead these groups how to do what they now do. I had the honor of meeting him last summer and working with him for a few days. We find solace in that he lived to see the beginning of the Minuteman Project and left behind much needed wisdom and experience. While our government denounces us, the Border Patrol union commends us (www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43859). The support and respect is mutual. They dispel the myth that MMP's, as they now refer to us over the radio, are setting of the ground sensors. Rather, it's the ACLU legal observers who are setting off most of them as they prance about looking to find fault with us. (Some of these Tories were even caught on camera smoking pot.) Further, the rank-and-file beeps, as BP agents are referred to, feel so betrayed by the president that they are ready to walk out in droves. It's too bad that W doesn't recognize that we 1,000 Minutemen are what H.W. called "a thousand points of light." That's OK, though. King George didn't like the Minutemen of his day either. We Americans will just have to keep doing the job our government won't do! My hometown of Framingham, like many other municipalities across America, is flooded with thousands of illegals, many of whom entered this country through Mexico and daily wreak havoc in our community. There is an intrinsic interconnectedness between the presence of illegal aliens at the border and in the interior. Illegal jobs, social services, and opportunity to abscond are all found in the latter and are what lure people through the desert in the first place. It is for that reason that April 30, 2005, does not mark the end of the Minuteman Project. It merely marks the beginning of its expansion nationwide. We will continue to legally, respectfully, fervently and patriotically defend this great land. The government can simply lead, follow or get out of the way. Jeffrey W. T. Buck is a Framingham resident and member of CCFIILE (Concerned Citizens and Friends of Illegal Immigration Law Enforcement)
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