ALOMINAS, Ariz. -- Minuteman Project organizers yesterday declared victory
after shutting down a 20-mile stretch of the Arizona border to illegal
aliens, but promised to rally "tens of thousands" of new volunteers for a
blockade this fall on the U.S.-Mexico border from California to Texas.
"We did in our first 10 days what the federal government and Congress
couldn't do over the past 10 years," Minuteman founder James T. Gilchrist
told a cheering crowd of 100 volunteers gathered at a meeting in the
organization's guarded base camp mess hall.
"This has been a successful and bloodless effort, proving without a doubt
that the physical presence of additional bodies along the border deters
illegal immigration," he said.
Mr. Gilchrist noted that fewer than 5,000 illegal aliens will be
apprehended
this month by the U.S. Border Patrol in the Minuteman Project's 20-mile
patrol area compared with 64,000 in April 2004 and 73,000 in April 2003.
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So, I ask, could not the church also use some volunteers in ministry to
accomplish what too few professionals have been unable to accomplish?
Power to the people!
Zane Anderson
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