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. . . . One of the things that I've done out here is I do death walk rituals to help release the spirits of the people that die out here in this desert. I recognize that the day is going to come that if the government does it there's something that the Minimans, and it can very well

be these, that I'm down here more than most of my folks, you know, a Minimans going to die down here on this border. I've lived in this part of the country all my life and I don't have anything against anybody, but I think our laws need to be enforced, especially after 9 and 11, you know, we don't know this going across our border or what they're doing or what they're bringing. So to me this is not about an immigration deal, it's about people coming into the country illegally and it's a security deal. The last thing I want to do is wake up some morning and find out that a backpack nuke will up and down down to sign. Well, I'm a political activist. That's, you know, I'm here to call attention to a problem.

And unfortunately, in trying to talk with politicians and stuff in years past about this, there hasn't been anything that's been able to cause them to become, if you will, nervous about this situation, whereas our being down here on this border makes them very nervous. And as long as we can keep the pressure on, then they have to deal with the problem. This organization, the minimum, claimed to be patriots, but yet they carry arms.

Yet they promote xenophobia in our community. We're fighting for our own identity. We want our borders secure and the notion about racism is absolutely false. It's a, you know, it's a storm in my side. It makes me absolutely sick to have that brought up, you know, because it's certainly not about racism. It's about national security. It's about our own identity. It's about our sovereignty. And as far as being racist against Mexican people or any other nationality, America is built on that. That's who we all are. But we are citizens of this country. And we're saying if you want to come through, come to the gate

and sign a guest book. This is a demonstration to let the federal government, the state government, and the local government that we as Mexican people and citizens of this country on this side of the border are poor and completely do not agree with the stance of the amendment. The primary objective is to focus enough attention on the problems on this border and create enough public outrage to force the government of the United States to fulfill their constitutional responsibility to secure our border. The time when everybody thought that the Mexican would hold it some brittle and lower his head are gone. We are going to fight. We're going to fight these races and we want them out of our community. I haven't had any apprehensions yet. I had one miss last night. But that will get better.

Who are these people and why are they coming to our border? Because we're the people who have family here and family in Juarez. You know, we're the people who share this community. Who are these outsiders? Who are these strangers coming here and telling us what they think should be happening at the international border, which is a divide between our two communities, but culturally, linguistically, and ethnically, we are part of one large community. This is 1911, the station six, no hand. It's right up on top of the mountain on the Mexican side. The sun was clear and the sun was going down. I mean, the light was hitting the windshield. It's like a flashing beacon.

Yeah, I mean, they're watching us, watching them, watching us. As you can see, there's a couple cars moving out there. You know, I'm not going to pay any attention to them right now until they get up real close. But for its raining over there, that's Mexico. And those mountains are the most part of Mexico. We're blaming everything on the Mexicans.

Just like Nazi Germany used to blame everything on the Jews. In our own life they called for my love. Mexico, Lindo, Icario, I'm going to leave you here. I do like six months ago. I don't know if you noticed a man who killed me. My family moved here in 1918, my great-grandfather. He bought this, this is actually the home ranch and it was a cattle ranching operation. There's a cattle ranching operation all the way

under the 50s. In the drought of the 50s my grandfather and my great-grandfather decided that they needed to do something different to make a living. So they started drilling wells and started developing farmland. Labor's always been an issue. Las Chepas, which is just across the border from the farms here, was actually built as a labor supply for the farms before the immigration act in the 80s, changed all of that. Prior to that it was legal to work in illegal alien. It was illegal to be in illegal aliens. So we provided these guys with jobs and paid them minimum wage and they were more than happy to live in Las Chepas and work over here. Because at that time minimum wage in Mexico was about $3 a day and here it was $3.35 an hour. So they were in heaven when they were working. So they're anymore around here and they're chased and take things off.

Is this the one we each feed all kind of people? I do feed him whenever I visit. In 1957 I joined the Army as a paratrooper to defend NATO's borders, and then later I re-enlisted and joined the Air Force to defend Vietnam's borders. And last year at age 64 I went to Afghanistan to defend their borders and they always called me a patriot until I came to defend our borders and the President calls me now a vigilante. We've driven this road today and we've found, obviously, trash is fairly fresh, not a lot,

but some, we found some tie downs where they've been pulling the fence and actually tying it open and then cut it loose and you can't tell. President gave his State of the Union address this year and in the State of the Union address the President called upon all Americans to be ever vigilant and to report any unusual occurrences to the appropriate authority and to stand ready to assist that authority when they arrived on the scene. You remember that? That is precisely what the Minutemen do.

We do nothing more. We do nothing less than what the President of the United States called on all Americans to do. It's a pretty good show isn't it? Right here. It's time, time barbs, the strands together and then they leave they cut it and it doesn't put marks on the wire and you won't notice it. When you have groups of individual on the border, patrol on the border in environments that they may not be accustomed to or be trained to deal with, there is a potential for danger or harm to come to those individuals. Civilians that are armed on the border do contain a certain amount of concern for our agents. Our agents are operating at all times of day or night, encountering someone unknown to you who is armed, not wearing any type of identification such as police officers do. It can cost for a few minutes of attention. Of course, our agents are trained and reactive accordingly but properly in those cases. These small radios are each of the stations and we have one in here, this one.

They talk to us and after this reason too, we then communicate with this with our big radio, 50s watt, through this back to the concert. It's 1911, Phase 6 go ahead. It's potentially very dangerous. You probably know they're all armed, they're all carrying weapons. They have their night vision gear, they're ready for war. That's what it is for them. It's like they're time to play soldier or hunter and they have all this high-tech equipment that they're using out in the desert to track these people who are coming here to work. I became aware of something called a rape tree where immigrants are victimized by their coyotes, they commit mass rape. The trees are noticeable because they have women's panties tied to them. It's some sort of sick machismo thing.

When I saw that, I realized that this is the face of evil, to allow this to happen. For us to allow this to happen in our country and that's where the rape trees are. They don't need to be in Mexico. The coyote needs to enforce discipline when he's in this country. It's on our soil that these rape trees are at. I have two daughters, that strikes very close to home. We do need to address this because the militarization of the border is causing death, it's causing rape, it's causing drugs to come through and that really is what needs to be addressed. We've learned a lot of lessons starting with Oklahoma City, the first bombing of the World Trade Center and then the airplane attack on the World Trade Center that the more we work together, the more we exercise, the more realistic those exercises is, we're going to save lives on the scene, we're going to, the first responders will be working in a much safer environment,

but also they're protecting a crime scene. When we have to go in and investigate it and find out who did this, we have a much better crime scene to investigate. Our government is basically forcing the nation of Israel to build this huge boundary along the West Bank and Gaza, you know, but our own border, I mean, look at it. It's like this is ludicrous, you know, this isn't a border, this isn't stopping anything, you know, anybody who wants to, whether they like us or not, can come here and come in our country and do what they want to do if they can survive getting across that, you know, that's a pretty desolate country out there. Well, they were, we had a very successful mission, their operations augmented our operation in a support role, their missions were to locate, spot, if you would, persons coming into

the United States, notify Border Patrol agents who made the arrest, the detention and transportation of the people who were arrested, and again, they helped us greatly because it was additional eyes and ears on the border for our agents in the Dominant, Lord'sburg areas. We have Homeland Security telling this president that the single greatest threat we face in the war on terror is our wide open southern border. Terrorists is our number one priority, keeping terrorism out of the United States, keeping terrorists out of the United States. Like I said, we have put in new technology in terms of radiation detectives, we are now using our X-ray and non-intrusive inspection system a lot more than we have in the past, and everything is focused on keeping terrorism and weapons of mass effect out of the United States. I love my, my, my, my Mexicans, because I'm a Mexican, I cannot be anything else but a Mexican, I don't care what, you know, if somebody sees me downtown or, I would say

an Anglo would see me downtown, they think I just swim there to river, the river across. What is your most difficult thing with all the police and all the security that they are putting in? They'll name their children the same as themselves and they'll use that social security to work.

And that's even in the fields because they need to have even a social to work in the fields now, it's not like before. Well as far as the employers that hire illegal immigrants, I think they should be fined and heavily and on the first count and they continue, I think they'll be shut down and thrown in prison, it's a very long suffering because I spent 20 years illegal, at 20 years I've been able to fix it, they call me, they call me, they call me, they call me, they call me, but here every year it's been four or five days, it's been a long time, it's been a long time, the minimum are not about immigration, the minimum are about secure borders.

As far as we're concerned, the immigration problem we're facing in America today is a symptom of that insecure border. The minimum in our home, this is our home, this is our country and we are here to stay, we will not be around island, not just period. Well I think it's a lot like things were years and years ago in the south, you know the people, there were a lot of people that probably thought that the blacks should go back to Africa, there was that contingent. The Fox put it pretty well when he said that the Mexicans are up here now taking jobs that the blacks won't even take. It was an opinion with hate because this town, there's 183 people that created this town

with the purpose of a better life, not of a drug deal or aliens, it wasn't made for that purpose, this town was made so people could experience a better life. For the military on the border, the National Guard does two weeks for training for a year, we could put them on the border, they could do their training there, it wouldn't cost

a dime more. They have all the high tech equipment to shut it down and the idea that we are uncapable of securing our borders is nonsense, there seems to be an unwillingness to secure our borders and that's the problem. I hope this country doesn't go back to where we were on the 50s for a Mexican-Cungote or a restaurant. I hope this country doesn't go back to where we were on the 50s for a long time. If that paper you're holding in your hands, said National Guard to deploy the border under

the conditions that they have detained powers for border patrol, knock down here to build fences or fix a border problem, but down here to enforce border law, I'd pack my stuff right now and I'd follow you guys home, we'd leave. That's our goal. All this, it is fear, that's why they're tightening up our borders, they're fearing that we have the minority has now become a majority and imagine if we double the amount of Hispanics Mexicans in this country will overpower the rest of the populations. So that's why it is fear, fear that we'll take over this country. The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for southern Mexico on Saturday heavy rain with wind gust approaching 40 minutes per hour are expected.

Wire reports indicate volunteer border watches from all over the United States and call themselves minute man after the Revolutionary War minute man will be in the boot heel of New Mexico for the remainder of the month, but totally in order for suspected terrorists. In local sports news, our own wild cats are celebrating their tough football road victory over the country, and they're being invaded in the fourth article and the fourth, what is, four of four, in the Constitution says that the government will protect the people from invasion. It's not happening, this is the Constitution that they are violating. Good morning. You

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