Thread: Internal squabbles tear at anti-immigrant movement LA Weekly

Minuteman Divisions
Internal squabbles tear at anti-immigrant movement
by BEN EHRENREICH


Xenophobia alert: Human rights
advocates vs. the Minutemen
in Campo
(Photos by Juan De Dios Garcia Davish)





Early one recent Sunday evening, standing in the shade of the oak trees outside the VFW hall in Campo, California, Sally wrung her hands. “I don’t understand why there isn’t more people out here. I really don’t.� A round woman with graying blond curls, Sally (who asked me not to print her full name) had driven from her home in El Cajon to this tiny high-desert town about 50 miles west of Calexico to help out with the first of California’s three competing Minuteman Project–inspired civilian border-militia efforts. Journalists and protesters easily outnumbered the Minutemen on July 16, the first day of the project. Less than two dozen people showed up the next day, and fewer than 10 were lazing around the parking lot as Sally walked off toward her car.

“I think it’s just a shame,� she said, and shook her head.

The poor turnout may have had something to do with the fact that late last month, Jim Chase, the project’s organizer, told San Diego’s North County Times that he was fed up with all the factional infighting and was calling the project off. It may have been because, until the middle of last week, Chase concealed all logistical information about the project on an inaccessible “secret pageâ€? of his Web site. The idea, he said, was to confuse “the enemy.â€? It didn’t work â€â€

Consider the source of this article the LA rag.

Chase is going to wind up in jail for hurting or killing someone. The border patrol refused to help people in his movement when they got attacked a couple weeks ago because they viewed them, unlike the Minutemen, as pains in the butt.

He's only going to be an Achilles heel for the Minuteman movement. The Minutemen were calling for volunteers to help him out after the debacle where the Campo VFW was overrun. They should have just kept quiet and focused on their August project, disavowing any relationship with this guy. He was telling his volunteers to basically bring anything from their garages that could be used as weapons to the border, and the border patrol had to tell him to knock it off.

Anything that compromises any good feelings between the Minutemen and the U.S. Border Patrol/ICE has to be ignored or disavowed at this point, or the Minutemen are going to be cut off at the knees and America loses as a result.

Originally Posted by nhantimassredrebel

Chase is going to wind up in jail for hurting or killing someone. The border patrol refused to help people in his movement when they got attacked a couple weeks ago because they viewed them, unlike the Minutemen, as pains in the butt.

He's only going to be an Achilles heel for the Minuteman movement. The Minutemen were calling for volunteers to help him out after the debacle where the Campo VFW was overrun. They should have just kept quiet and focused on their August project, disavowing any relationship with this guy. He was telling his volunteers to basically bring anything from their garages that could be used as weapons to the border, and the border patrol had to tell him to knock it off.

Anything that compromises any good feelings between the Minutemen and the U.S. Border Patrol/ICE has to be ignored or disavowed at this point, or the Minutemen are going to be cut off at the knees and America loses as a result.

You've read too many of these stories. The border patrol has been responding to the reports given to them by the Minutemen so I don't know where you are getting your information. The VFW was "overrun," if you want to call it that, for about 15 minutes on Sat. the 16th by about 60 protesters. It was not a debacle that could have been prevented by anyone. There were only a half dozen stragglers from that point on. They harrased them a few other times but never in large numbers. I don't know Jim Chase very well but I was there for a few days and he seemed like an okay guy. Yes, I've read on the internet how Jim Chase was stockpiling explosives to blow up migrants but I can tell a smear job when I see one. Don't believe everything you read. I don't know the whole story but I guess Chase and Simcox didn't get along. That happends sometimes. It's not a fracture in the whole anti-illegal immigration movement. Why Andy Ramirez thought is was appropriate to put out a press release on his feelings about Chase is anybody's guess. In any case, the movement is stronger than it's self appointed leaders.

Another thing, the LA Weekly is a worthless free paper that earns its revenue from escort and massage advertisements.

I suggest you read some of the posts where the Minutemen speak for themselves. Like this one.

https://www.alipac.us/ftopict-7340.html