"Remember who the original Minutemen were? In the decades leading up to the American Revolution, young men from various New England localities were selected out of the regular militia to serve in what today could be called special forces units, dedicated to protecting family, community and colony. Their constant state of rediness at 'a minute's notice' earned them the title, 'Minutemen,' a term now synonymous with patriots willing to fight for freedom."
This is taken from the Minuteman Project website, the movement that is having a huge impact on getting Congress to take border security seriously, by sending Minutemen (regular American citizens) who are concerned about our border condition, to our southern border to watch and report illegals trying to cross. We played segments of a speech by it's founder, Chris Simcox, on the show today.
Most think the majority of illegals coming across the border are Mexicans. But as Chris Simcox pointed out a great percentage of illegals are OTMs (other than Mexicans). As a matter of fact over 100,000 OTM illegals have been apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol. There is an estimated 10.3 million illegal immigrants in the United States. According to the Pew Hispanic Center here is where they came from:
5.8 million: Mexico
2.5 million: Other Latin American countries
927,000: Asia
618,000: Europe, Canada
412,000: Africa
And according to the CovExec.com report, ICE has released about 1 million illegal aliens into the country. Out of that about 465,000 never showed up for their court hearings and about 85,000 have criminal records.
What more needs to be said?
Hear the show (See 10/26/05)
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