On Thu, 12 May 2005 16:06:02 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote in
K9Lge.76006$WI3.51424@attbi_s71::

Yeah, I wonder if "Operation Minuteman" (or whatever the heck it's called)
is having any effect?


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7725470/
Minutemen end border watch, plan to expand
Gov. Schwarzenegger praises group heading to CaliforniaBy Brock N.
Meeks
Chief Washington correspondent
MSNBC
Updated: 11:32 a.m. ET May 4, 2005WASHINGTON - The month-long
volunteer effort by a grassroots citizen group monitoring illegal
immigration along a desolate 23-mile stretch of the Arizona-Mexico
border ended much as it started: in a war of words.

The so-called Minuteman Project says its nearly 900 volunteers,
some of them armed, were so successful that during April the
border area they monitored witnessed “a 98 percent reduction in
border crossings.” But the number is difficult to independently
verify.

The Minuteman Project also claims it was directly responsible for
the apprehension by U.S. Border Patrol agents of 349 people trying
to illegally enter the United States during the month, according
to Grey Deacon, a spokesman for the project.

During their watch on the border, if Minuteman volunteers ...