Thread: ACLU will keep an eye an Minutemen project

HEY ACLU!! I've got a NEW IDEA for YOU!!

How about training ACLU LEGAL OBSERVERS to monitor our schools and ensure that the civil rights of AMERICAN CHILDREN aren't violated by illegal immigration?

There's a bunch of schools in California with 58% DROP OUT RATES because the children are scared to death to go to school because illegal gangs have taken control of the schools?

HOW ABOUT THOSE CIVIL RIGHTS?

Not interested?

Why am I not surprised....that would actually be a LEGAL AND WORTHWHILE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTY activity!!

ACLU...you are a bunch of phonies. You disgrace the name "American". You insult the term "Liberties".

Originally Posted by Brian503a

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ACLU seeks volunteers to keep an eye on Minutemen project
Saturday, August 6, 2005
Diana Washington Valdez
El Paso Times

The American Civil Liberties Union will train volunteers to monitor the Minuteman project along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas and New Mexico, and document any abuses of human rights or violence, said Claudia Guevara, a coordinator for the ACLU's Legal Observers program in El Paso.

The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps volunteers, and other groups like it, patrol the border to report immigrants who appear to have entered the country illegally. Critics have called them vigilantes.

Guevara said the program is designed to prevent violence and abuses against migrants and shed light on border conditions that lead to migrant deaths. "We won't be there to engage in dialogue or confront the Minuteman groups. We are a nonviolent group," she said.

El Paso County Sheriff Leo Samaniego and other sheriff's officials met Friday with Minuteman organizers who requested the meeting, said Rick Glancey, spokesman for the Sheriff's Office.

"Sheriff Samaniego characterized the meeting as positive," Glancey said. He added that organizers were advised in writing of Texas laws they must observe, and were told to call 911 if they encounter situations that require law enforcement.

"The message they conveyed is that they believe the Border Patrol is doing a great job, but they don't have the resources they need to do what is required to secure the border," said Glancey, who did not know which Minuteman organization met with Samaniego.

Minuteman leaders in Arizona could not be reached for comment. Their patrols will begin in New Mexico and Texas in October.

Clifford Alford, an organizer for Border Watch in Las Cruces, formerly called New Mexico Minutemen, said he welcomed the ACLU. "It's going to make it look like we have more people out there," he said, adding that in one month, his group prevented 280 people from crossing the border just by their presence. They also reported more than 100 suspected undocumented immigrants to authorities. "We are for changing the immigration laws, and we use a humanitarian approach," he said.

Ramiro Cordero, a senior patrol agent for U.S. Customs and Border Protection-Border Patrol, said "We are not going to make any comments on the ACLU's issues or views." Previously, officials of the federal border security agency said only that they would monitor the Minutemen's activities.

Beginning in October, ACLU Legal Observers volunteers will go out to the desert in groups with two-way radios, cell phones and a video camera.

"Legal observers will position themselves alongside Minuteman volunteers, but will remain separate from them ... (and) at all times remain nonviolent and nonconfrontational with both Minutemen and law enforcement," according to a program flier.


To join


*American Civil Liberties Legal Observers program will train volunteers to watch Minuteman patrols at the border.

*The coordinators are Claudia Guevara in El Paso at 532-0921, and Kimberly Lavender in Albuquerque at (505) 266-5915; http://www..

The "Boarder Patrol" is hiring "Illegals" and these "Illegals" are making money letting More "Illegals" into the country.The last "Illegal Boarder Patrol Agent" use "Fake ID" to get the
"Federal Job".How will the "American Civil Liberties Union" help him get by with it?
So much for your Boarder Patrol.
OH YEAH!!! How about "Arlington"? We`re still waiting."LOCKED AND LOADED".
PS. Our "Vigilantes/Minutemen" ranks are growing and growing at a rapid rate.You"American Civil Liberties People" are being disliked at an equally rapid rate.IT won`t be long before the "ACLU" is just a greezy spot in the road.

Originally Posted by Judy

HEY ACLU!! I've got a NEW IDEA for YOU!!

How about training ACLU LEGAL OBSERVERS to monitor our schools and ensure that the civil rights of AMERICAN CHILDREN aren't violated by illegal immigration?

There's a bunch of schools in California with 58% DROP OUT RATES because the children are scared to death to go to school because illegal gangs have taken control of the schools?

HOW ABOUT THOSE CIVIL RIGHTS?

Not interested?

Why am I not surprised....that would actually be a LEGAL AND WORTHWHILE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTY activity!!

ACLU...you are a bunch of phonies. You disgrace the name "American". You insult the term "Liberties".

Right ON!!.You must be a "Carolina Girl".

IT won`t be long before the "ACLU" is just a greezy spot in the road.

GOD, I LOVE AMERICANS!!

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Sunday, August 28, 2005

ACLU trains volunteers who will keep eye on Minutemen

Darren Meritz
El Paso Times

The American Civil Liberties Union on Saturday began training observers in El Paso to watch Minutemen as they patrol for undocumented immigrants trying to sneak into the country.

The ACLU will deploy volunteers in clearly marked shirts to ensure that civil and human rights are not violated. Organizers for Minutemen in Texas and New Mexico have said they will begin patrols in October.

"When you go and you actually talk to them, you'll see that the underlying reason they're here is not because of immigration or drugs, but because this country is changing," said Claudia Guevara, a coordinator from Los Angeles for ACLU's Legal Observer program.

Officials of border watch operations disagree and say Minutemen are making a political statement without breaking laws.

"The government has continued to fail to enforce U.S. immigration laws for four decades now, and it's time for the U.S. people to present their case under the First Amendment, and that's how we're doing it," said Jim Gilchrist, a founder of the Minuteman Project.

Some of the training session attendees opposed the Minutemen operations.

"There has to be a peaceful response to this Minutemen situation, and it's not going to be through protest, of course," said Paul Barraza, 37, a real estate broker from El Paso.