Alert Border Patrol and Minutemen in the Tucson Area! This crossing will take place on April 19.

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http://www.eldiariony.com/noticias/deta ... id=1848093

The organization The People United of Virginia, which has prompted the initiative, has months preparing this action, that began on Saturday with a meeting with immigrants in Richmond (Virginia) and will materialize with the crossing of the border from Mexico into the United States on April 19.

The activist Patrick Lincoln, of Harrisonburg, and Virginia Leavell, of Charlottesville, that work with Mexicans without Borders and other organizations in defense of the immigrants, travelled to Tucson (Arizona) and to Nogales (Mexico) to prepare activities, meet with activists of the region and to explore the details of the border.

Two activists of The People United (El Pueblo Unido), Sue Frankel-Streit and Jeff Winder, will be responsible for crossing the border in a desert spot close to Nogales (Mexico) and they will do it without ID cards emitted by the Government of the United States.

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http://www.proceso.hn/2008/04/14/Migran ... /5289.html

The campaign, organized by the group "El Pueblo Unido", will initiate on April 19 and will culminate on May 1 with a march in the American capital organized by "Mexicans without borders".

"We plan the crossing to denounce the reality in the border, where the products flow freely through the ports of entry every day while human beings die in the desert", said Jeff Winder, member of the group "El Pueblo Unido" and one of the ones that will cross "without papers" into the United States.

"A militarized border doesn't protect us; our security will arrive when we eliminated the vast inequalities of wealth and power that represent the commercial politics as the tried Norht American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)", added Winder in a press release.


Sue Frankel-Streit


Jeff Winder arrested after an Irak war protest.