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EVENT: Texas Minuteman hosting fundraiser for Operation Sovereignty
By Sara Inés Calderón
The Brownsville Herald

The civilian border patrol group the Texas Minuteman will have a fundraiser on Aug. 26 for the upcoming Operation Sovereignty, where volunteers patrol the United States-Mexico border via private ranch land.

The fundraiser will be in Denton, Texas, north of Dallas. The money will benefit the group's operations which will be from Sept. 11 through Nov. 7 in Laredo and Del Rio and Oct. 1 through Oct. 31 in the El Paso area, according to a statement from the group.

Between 200 and 300 people will be working the El Paso sector and 800 to 1,000 in the Laredo sector, according to the group.

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