Border group to conduct its first operations today in Palominas
Aug 17, 2007
By Gentry Braswell
Herald/Review
SIERRA VISTA — The Patriots’ Border Alliance, a spin-off of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, will have its first border operation beginning today at noon at the Palominas Trading Post.

As of Thursday morning, 50 RSVPs had been received by Bill Irwin, who is a Patriots’ Border Alliance board member. He said he also is a founding and former member of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.

The Tucson man was the national operations officer for the MCDC before the Patriots’ Border Alliance formed after some members broke off from MCDC.

Irwin said the split occurred because of philosophical differences.

“A disagreement over a number of issues — I guess for lack of a better word, a lack of transparency at MCDC,â€