Arizona-based Minuteman group disbands

Mar. 24, 2010 04:00 PM
Associated Press .

TUCSON - The Arizona-based Minuteman Civil Defense Corps that was a border watch group comprised of private citizens has decided to disband.

Minuteman president, Carmen Mercer, says she and the board's two other directors voted to dissolve the group after a five-year run over concerns that her recent "call to action" would attract the wrong people to the Arizona-Mexico border.

Mercer sent an e-mail on March 16 urging members to come to the border "locked, loaded and ready." She proposed changing the group's rules to allow members to track illegal immigrants and drug smugglers instead of just reporting the activity to the U.S. Border Patrol.

The group formed as Civil Homeland Defense in 2002, became the Minuteman Project in April 2005 and then later the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.

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