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Closely Observing the Minutemen
News Report, Pablo Jaime Sainz,
La Prensa-San Diego, Aug 30, 2005

During the summer, when the so-called Minutemen arrived at the small border town of Campo, east of San Diego, Hugo Figueroa read in the newspapers that legal observers were closely watching the anti-immigrant group.

The student from Chula Vista wished that he could join them. Now he can.

A group of lawyers have come together in San Diego to recruit legal observers to closely watch the Minutemen, or as they’re called in Spanish, cazamigrantes, that are planning to arrive at the border near Tecate on Sept. 16.

“That’s the opportunity I was waiting for to participate and help out so that there’s justice at the border,� said 22-year-old Figueroa.

The goal of the San Diego Legal Observer Coalition, as the group of lawyers is called, is to observe and record the interactions between the Minutemen â€â€