Thread: Minutemen betrayal letter

Here is the letter I typed, if it is workable for you all, use it, I have left the name area blank. Feel free to put a new date on it, and slo be sure ot print out the statement from the Minutemen news. I will make sure that is also here. Pass it around and make copies for others to pass around. Then when you have as many signatures you can get, send it all to not only Dept. Homeland INsecurity, but to senators, congressmen, the White house, and whoever else comes to mind.

To: Department of Homeland Security May 9th, 2006
Washington, D.C. 20528


From:



This letter is in regards to the recent story which broke on Fox news, and again on Lou Dobbs about the acts of treason against U.S. citizens, the Minutemen.

Outrage is too mild a word to express the sentiment felt by many today. Since when is it excusable for our own government to work against it's own citizens in conjunction with a foreign, and hostile nation? Mexico's governments hostility against Americans and especially the Minutemen is well known.

It is also well known that the Mexican military has been seen helping suspected drug smugglers attempt to cross the border. There have been incursions by the Mexican military into our nation, and our own inept Department of Homeland Security has done nothing to stop not only these incursions, but this massive invasion into our country of millions of Mexican citizens.

Department of Homeland Security has sat back idly watching employers get wealthy from their slave labor, that they call "undocumented workers", while this trend undercuts American wages.

Today americans all over this nation watched the news, with a sense of unbeleif that their own government would commit treason against law abiding American citizens, comspiring with a foreign government.

Today, Americans have decided they have seen enough of anarchy against us, we have taken this all in, and are now ready for action. We have watched thousands of illegal aliens march in our streets, demanding rights that are not theirs to demand.

We will not stand back and allow our government to sell us out to major corporations that just want to increase their profits. We will not stand idly by and watch the future taken away from us by illegal aliens.

YOU, are OUR government, you answer to us, not Vicente Fox, or the Mexican Embassy. This letter and all of the information you have received with it, will be copied and circulated, by hand, by thousands of Americans, across this nation. We will secure as many supporters and signatures. This letter will not only be seen in your offices, but that of all senators, all congressmen and the White House.

We plan to make Americans aware that our own government has been helping Mexico send it's citizens over our borders illegally.

We now want you to stop notifying the Mexican Embassy and government of the whereabouts of any citizen groups that actively patrol the border, a job Homeland Security has been completely inadequate at doing. Apparently enforcing our laws and securing our borders is a job YOU will not do.

Sincerely,



Minuteman ALERT –

Breaking news on US betrayal of Minuteman Patrols

US agency reports legal citizen activity to a foreign power. – WHY?

U.S. tipping Mexico to Minuteman patrols

By Sara A. Carter, Staff Writer
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3799653

While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen -- and telling the Mexican government where they are.

According to three documents on the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Web site, the U.S. Border Patrol is to notify the Mexican government as to the location of Minutemen and other civilian border patrol groups when they participate in apprehending illegal immigrants -- and if and when violence is used against border crossers.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed the notification process, describing it as a standard procedure meant to reassure the Mexican government that migrants' rights are being observed.

"It's not a secret where the Minuteman volunteers are going to be," Mario Martinez said Monday.

"This ... simply makes two basic statements -- that we will not allow any lawlessness of any type, and that if an alien is encountered by a Minuteman or arrested by the Minuteman, then we will allow that government to interview the person."

Minuteman members were not so sanguine about the arrangement, however, saying that reporting their location to Mexican officials nullifies their effectiveness along the border and could endanger their lives.

"Now we know why it seemed like Mexican officials knew where we were all the time," said Chris Simcox, founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. "It's unbelievable that our own government agency is sending intelligence to another country. They are sending intelligence to a nation where corruption runs rampant, and that could be getting into the hands of criminal cartels.

"They just basically endangered the lives of American people."

Officials with the Mexican consulate in Washington, D.C., could not be reached for comment Monday.

Martinez said reporting the location of immigrant apprehensions to consulate representatives is common practice if an illegal immigrant requests counsel or believes they have been mistreated.

"Once an illegal alien is apprehended, they can request counsel," he said. "We have to give their counsel the information about their apprehension, and that includes where they are apprehended, whether a Minuteman volunteer spotted them or a citizen."

Martinez said Mexico's official perception of the civilian groups is that they are vigilantes, a belief the Border Patrol hoped to allay by entering into the cooperative agreement.

One of the documents on the Web site, "Actions of the Mexican Government in Relation to the Activities of Vigilante Groups," states that Mexican consulate representatives stay in close contact with Border Patrol chiefs to ensure the safety of migrants trying to enter the U.S., those being detained and the actions of all "vigilantes" along the border.

"The Mexican consul in Presidio also contacted the chief of the Border Patrol in the Marfa Sector to solicit his cooperation in case they detect any activity of `vigilantes,' and was told to immediately contact the consulate if there was," according to the document.

"Presidio" refers to Presidio County, Texas, which is in the Big Bend region and a gateway to northern Mexico.

The document also describes a meeting with San Diego Border Patrol sector chief Darryl Griffen.

"(Griffen) said that the Border Patrol will not permit any violence or any actions contrary to the law by the groups, and he is continuously aware of (the volunteer organizations') operations," according to the document. "Mr. Griffen reiterated to the undersecretary his promise to notify the General Consul right away when the vigilantes detain or participate in the detention of any undocumented Mexicans."

The documents specifically named the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and its patrols, which began monitoring Arizona's southern border in April 2005, as well as Friends of the Border Patrol, a Chino-based nonprofit.

TJ Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a union representing more than 10,000 Border Patrol agents, said agents have complained for years about the Mexican consulate's influence over the agency.

"It worries me (that the Mexican government) seems to be unduly influencing our enforcement policies. That's not a legitimate role for any foreign nation," Bonner said, though he added, "It doesn't surprise me."

Border Patrol agents interviewed by the Daily Bulletin said they have been asked to report to sector headquarters the location of all civilian volunteer groups, but to not file the groups' names in reports if they spot illegal immigrants.

"Last year an internal memo notified all agents not to give credit to Minuteman volunteers or others who call in sightings of illegal aliens," said one agent, who spoke on the condition he not be identified. "We were told to list it as a citizen call and leave it at that. Many times, we were told not to go out to Minuteman calls."

The document also mentions locations of field operations of Friends of the Border Patrol, which patrolled the San Diego sector from June to November 2005. Mexican officials had access to the exact location of the group founded by Andy Ramirez, which ran its patrols from the Rough Acre Ranch, a private property in McCain Valley.

Ramirez said that for safety reasons, he disclosed the location of his ranch patrol only to San Diego Border Patrol and law enforcement officials. The group did not apprehend or spot any undocumented migrants in that area.

"We did not release this information ... to the media or anyone else," Ramirez said. "We didn't want to publicize that information. But there it is, right on the Mexican government's Web site, and our government gave it to them."

Good letter. Works for me.

One thing I have been thinking about but almost reluctant to say. I hate to have any terrorist activity occur because of his lack of securing the border. But I think he has been living on borrowed time. If there is any damage done to this country that is the result of not securing our borders...then he is out...gone.

Giving information to the Mexican Government on where surveillance on our border takes place whether civilian or government run is completely unacceptable. A government agency really should know better.

This careless act of treason endangers national security and the lives American Citizens who are volunteers with the Minutemen and other border security groups.

If the government had done their jobs the minutemen would not have to be on the border. This is either another demand from the mexican government or a way to make it look like the minutemen are doing nothing.

AmericanElizabeth I really appreciate you taking the time compose to this letter. Thank you! I will get signatures from everyone on my email list, and forward it out to everybody.