minutemen

=<div> =CFJ's paid media consultant, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Connie_Hair&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Connie Hair (page does not exist)" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-image="background-image" none="none" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Connie Hair</a>, is part-time director of communications for Representative <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Trent_Franks&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Trent Franks (page does not exist)" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-image="background-image" none="none" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Trent Franks</a> (R-Arizona) and a media consultant for the "controversial <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project:%22Armed_Rednecks_at_the_Border%22" class="mw-redirect" title="Minuteman Project: " armed="Armed" rednecks="Rednecks" at="at" the="the" border="Border" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-image="background-image" none="none" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Minuteman Project</a>." Hair is also a paid media consultant for the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fisher_Center_for_Alzheimer%27s_Research_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation (page does not exist)" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-image="background-image" none="none" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation</a> in New York. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0821AZindc21.html" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-image="background-image" linear-gradient="linear-gradient" transparent="transparent" url="url" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center" background-size="background-size" initial="initial" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" repeat="repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">[4]</a>=swMinuteman Project (MMP) is a group that aims to recruit individuals to volunteer to help prevent illegal immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona. "Americans doing the jobs Congress won't do. Operating within the law to support enforcement of the law," its website states. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.minutemanproject.com/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">[1]</a>The Minuteman Project modeled its name on the Minutemen from Massachusetts in the late 1700s. Initially launched in April 2005 as a month-long project, it caused concern about "unforeseen results" within the ranks of the U.S. Border Patrol. The Border Patrol's official position is "it doesn't need the project's assistance." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.svherald.com/articles/2005/03/27/local_news/news1.txt" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">[2]</a>The organization was created by <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Gilchrist" title="Jim Gilchrist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jim Gilchrist</a> and <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Chris_Simcox" title="Chris Simcox" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chris Simcox</a>, but the later left the organization in April, 2005 and went on to rename his <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Homeland_Defense&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Civil Homeland Defense (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Civil Homeland Defense</a> patrol group as <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Civil_Defense_Corps_Inc." title="Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Inc." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Inc.</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20050706-9999-1n6watch.html#" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">[3]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#About" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1About</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#Leadership" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.1Leadership</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#2005_Split_in_the_minuteman_movement_and_between_Gilchrist_and_Simcox" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.22005 Split in the minuteman movement and between Gilchrist and Simcox</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#Reaction_of_Border_Patrol_agents" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.2.1Reaction of Border Patrol agents</a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#Other_Minuteman-related_groups" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Other Minuteman-related groups</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#Minuteman_Civil_Defense_Corps_Inc." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.1Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Inc.</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#Texas_Minutemen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2Texas Minutemen</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#California_Coalition_for_Immigration_Reform" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.3California Coalition for Immigration Reform</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#Friends_of_the_Border_Patrol" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.4Friends of the Border Patrol</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#Border_Watch" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.5Border Watch</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#Record_and_controversies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Record and controversies</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#Recent_activities" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.1Recent activities</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#U.S.Border_Patrol" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.2U.S. Border Patrol</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#Recruitment_of_volunteers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.3Recruitment of volunteers</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#Connections_with_White_Supremacy_groups" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.4Connections with White Supremacy groups</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#Allegations_of_minutemen_screwing_up_Border_Patrol_operations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.5Allegations of minutemen screwing up Border Patrol operations</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#General_criticisms" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.6General criticisms</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#Relationship_with_George_W.Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.7Relationship with George W. Bush</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#Contact_details" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Contact details</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#Articles_and_resources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Articles and resources</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#SourceWatch_resources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.1SourceWatch resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#Sources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.2Sources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.3External links</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#Calls_for_Volunteers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.4Calls for Volunteers</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#Articles.26_commentary" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.5Articles & commentary</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-26" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#Pre-2005" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.5.1Pre-2005</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-27" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#2005" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.5.22005</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-28" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#2006" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.5.32006</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">About</h2>On its website the group states their mobilization is "a call to peacefully assemble at the Arizona-Mexico border to bring national awareness to the decades-long careless disregard of effective U.S. immigration law enforcement. It is a reminder to Americans that our nation was founded as a nation governed by the 'rule of law', not by the whims of mobs of ILLEGAL aliens who endlessly stream across U.S. borders. Accordingly, the men and women volunteering for this mission are those who are willing to sacrifice their time, and the comforts of a cozy home, to muster for something much more important than acquiring more 'toys' to play with while their nation is devoured and plundered by the menace of tens of millions of invading illegal aliens." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.minutemanproject.com/default.asp?contentID=2" style="background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px;">[4]</a>"Future generations will inherit a tangle of rancorous, unassimilated, squabbling cultures with no common bond to hold them together, and a certain guarantee of the death of this nation as a harmonious 'melting pot'", resulting in "political, economic and social mayhem." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.minutemanproject.com/default.asp?contentID=2" style="background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px;">[5]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Leadership</h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Gilchrist" title="Jim Gilchrist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jim Gilchrist</a>. Gilchrist is a retired Orange County, California, accountant. In 2005 he stated that he was considering a run for Congress. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></li></ul><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Main article: <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Gilchrist" title="Jim Gilchrist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jim Gilchrist</a></dd></dl><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">2005 Split in the minuteman movement and between Gilchrist and Simcox</h3>In late April 2005 (after the April 2005 <a class="mw-selflink selflink" style="text-decoration: inherit; background: none; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold;">Minuteman Project</a> operation on the Arizona-Mexico border), Chris Simcox split off from Jim Gilchrist and the Minuteman Project. Simcox then renamed his Civil Homeland Defense patrol group the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. In July 2005 the San Diego Union-Tribune reported that he had been "establishing chapters in other states, with hopes of staging a borderwide patrol event in October." <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a>While Gilchrist said he and Simcox parted amicably, activists interviewed by the Union-Tribune said it was due to conflicting "egos" and competition for the "glamour" and "glory" of the media attention the minutemen received over their Arizona operation. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a>The split was part of a larger round of infighting and splintering within the minuteman movement in the summer of 2005. In June 2005, Gilchrist cut ties with two volunteers he characterized as "wackos" after they took issue with emails he sent to Minuteman Project members promising consequences for those engaged in infighting. Gilchrist has said he has sought to copyright the "Minuteman Project" name (some groups use "Minuteman while others use "Minutemen"), but said, "If they want to use Minuteman, you can't stop them. To try to stop them would be to upset them." <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><div style="margin: 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; background: rgb(220, 232, 248); border: 1px solid rgb(92, 121, 181); padding: 0.25em;">See also: <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Civil_Defense_Corps_Inc." title="Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Inc." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Inc.</a></div><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Reaction of Border Patrol agents</h4>The Border Patrol's official position has been that professionals, not civilians, should guard the border. When the movement was splitting in 2005, Chris Bauder, President of the National Border Patrol Council - Local 1613 (San Diego), said he thought it had to do with clashing political ambitions. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a> However, that was a direct response to questions by the reporter regarding the political clash between the Andy Ramirez from Friends of the Border Patrol and other minutemen organizations. Ultimately, the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nbpc1613.org/" style="background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px;">National Border Patrol Council - Local 1613 (San Diego, CA)</a> has consistently maintained that they respect the right of citizens to serve on the border in a capacity similar to a "neighborhood watch" program. The NBPC - Local 1613 is thankful for the attention that the minutemen organizations have brought to the border and are thankful to have assistance from volunteers.[Unfortunately, most of the minutemen organizations attempted to claim success at securing a section of the border by using the same strategy that has been employed by the Border Patrol since 1994 when Operation Gatekeeper was implemented in the San Diego Sector. This strategy requires the deployment of an excessive amount of resources to an area of the border. This strategy is referred to as "displacement" in the criminal justice field because the intent of the increased resources is to displace the unwanted activity to another location. In the case of the border, people who attempt to enter illegally are pushed to other areas of the border that have less resources. The strategy makes it look as though the operation is a success when in reality all of the traffic is just entering at another location of the border where there is less attention or less visibility by the public. The steadily increasing number of illegal aliens in the United States since 1994 has proven that the strategy is a failure and should be abandoned <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nbpc1613.org/Pages/NewsMedia/MediaFAQ.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">National Border Patrol Council - Local 1613 Media FAQ</a>.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Other Minuteman-related groups</h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Inc.</h3>Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Inc. is a similar group founded by Minuteman Project co-founder <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Chris_Simcox" title="Chris Simcox" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chris Simcox</a> after a split with Gilchrist in 2005 (see above). It has several affiliated groups, including the New Mexico Minutemen (not to be confused with the Minuteman Project-affiliated New Mexico Minutemen - see below).<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Main article: <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Civil_Defense_Corps_Inc." title="Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Inc." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Inc.</a></dd></dl><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Texas Minutemen</h3>A June 2005 story in the San Diego Union-Tribune cited <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Shannon_McGauley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shannon McGauley (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Shannon McGauley</a> as the leader of the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Texas_Minutemen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Texas Minutemen (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Texas Minutemen</a> and reported him as saying that he had trained with Gilchrist in Arizona and had obtained permission to use the Minuteman name. However, while McGauley said his group adhered to Minuteman Project operating procedures, he was uninterested in Simcox's Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a>"We're all real Minutemen," McGauley said, "We all went to Arizona together and served in the desert with those snakes, where the trash was, with the scorpions. Our objectives are the same, but we just want to keep it a Texas operation. I don't want to be part of some corporation." <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">California Coalition for Immigration Reform</h3>A June 2005 story in the San Diego Union-Tribune cited <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barbara_Coe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Barbara Coe (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barbara Coe</a> as head of the "controversial" California Coalition for Immigration Reform. In the story Coe complained about anti-illegal-immigration group leaders attacking Gilchrest, saying, "To me it is just incredible, with as much as has been accomplished thanks to Jim Gilchrist, that anybody would do anything to make even a little bump in the road." <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Friends of the Border Patrol</h3>Friends of the Border Patrol planned to perform border patrols in San Diego County in September 2005 called "FBP Border Watch." It is run by <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Andy_Ramirez&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andy Ramirez (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Andy Ramirez</a>, who ran two unsuccessful campaigns as a Democrat for the California state Assembly in the mid 1990s. In 2005 Ramierez declined to rule out the possibility of eventually running for federal office. The group received funding from the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Carlsbad_Republican_Women_Federated&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carlsbad Republican Women Federated (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Carlsbad Republican Women Federated</a> in May 2005. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Border Watch</h3>The Border Watch group is led by <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Chase&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jim Chase (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jim Chase</a> of Oceanside, California, who changed its name from the "United States Border Patrol Auxiliary" in 2005. Chase has been at odds with both Gilchrist and Simcox, among others. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a>Chase and Andy Ramirez of the Friends of the Border Patrol attacked each other in a series of news releases and interviews in May 2005. Ramirez said he had received "alarming" e-mails from Chase and that he had condoned the use of snipers for a July 2005 event he was planning. Chase said Ramirez misunderstood him but Ramirez stood by his account. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a>Chase said in 2005 that the fight between Ramirez and him drove him to publicly split with the larger minuteman movement, saying, "I keep hearing all these things: I'm a rogue. I'm a Rambo. I want to shoot the heads off people... I'm a flower child compared to Gilchrist and Simcox." <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a>Gilchrist says the two generally get along, but showed a reporter what he said was an e-mail from Chase saying, "In the name of the father, son, and holy spirit, come on James ... be a man or be an ass." <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a>Chase said he would eschew the spotlight and condemned the minuteman infighting, saying, "Anything I do is going to be hidden, covert." However, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported that Chase "is still working with other groups along the border, including a New Mexico group called the New Mexico Minutemen that is engaged in a rivalry with" a <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Civil_Defense_Corps&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Minuteman Civil Defense Corps</a>-sanctioned group of the same name." <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Record and controversies</h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Recent activities</h3>Gilchrist said in 2005 that the group was awaiting non-profit status and that he hoped it would soon go after employers of illegal immigrants. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">U.S. Border Patrol</h3>"The <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Department_of_Homeland_Security" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of Homeland Security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Department of Homeland Security</a> recently assigned more than 500 additional border patrol agents to the Arizona-Mexico border. Many observers believe the move is a response to the Minuteman Project, a group of civilian volunteers who patrol the area looking for <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Illegal_immigration" title="Illegal immigration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">illegal immigrants</a>." <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4569377" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">NPR, March 31, 2005</a>.<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Recruitment of volunteers</h3>The search for volunteers commenced prior to November 1, 2004, when a recruitment notice by James W. Gilchrist of Aliso Viejo, California, then acting as "interim coordinator", was posted on the Frosty Wooldridge website. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.frostywooldridge.com/info/minuteman_project.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">[6]</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In Spring 2005, volunteers were asked "to converge on the southern border of Arizona for the purpose of aiding the U.S. Border Patrol in 'spotting' intruders entering the U.S. illegally."</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Described as a "strictly" volunteer project, those who chose to participate would not receive "financial subsidies" but were advised that they would need "a tent, sleeping bag etc." and would "be responsible for all costs" involved, then estimated at up to $3,500 for 30 days, exclusive of travel.</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The proposed "area of observation" was anticipated to "be a 10-mile stretch of forested highlands, and lowlands along the San Pedro River."</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">On November 1, 2004, the Project had already recruited "66 volunteers from the following 12 states: Arizona 36; California 11; Colorado 1; Florida 2; Massachusetts 2; NewMexico 4; Ohio 3; Oklahoma 1; Oregon 2; Texas 2; Virginia 1; Wyoming 1."</li></ul>"Many of the volunteers were recruited over the Internet, and some planned to be armed." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050405/ap_on_re_us/border_volunteers_4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">[7]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Connections with White Supremacy groups</h3>"The Internet-driven recruiting effort for the Minuteman Project has almost 900 volunteers and last week alone generated more than 1 million hits on the project's Web site, organizers said. The organization claims on its website that it "has no affiliation with, nor will we accept any assistance by or interference from separatists, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Racism" title="Racism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">racists</a> or supremacy groups or individuals, no matter what their race, color, or creed." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.minutemanproject.com/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">[8]</a>However, "the patrol also has drawn major interest on <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=White_supremacy" title="White supremacy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">white supremacist</a> Web sites and in their chat rooms. An <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Aryan_Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Aryan Nation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Aryan Nation</a> site links directly to the Minuteman Project home page with the words: 'A call for action on part of ALL ARYAN SOLDIERS'," reported the Arizona Republic. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a>Hedi Beirich, deputy director of the Alabama-based <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Southern_Poverty_Law_Center" title="Southern Poverty Law Center" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Southern Poverty Law Center</a>, expressed skepticism over claims by Minuteman organizers' that they will be able to weed out white supremacists. "You have this vulnerable population crossing the border, and these semi-crazed Nazis who hate immigrants. It's just a combustible mix," she said. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a>Minuteman organizer <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Chris_Simcox" title="Chris Simcox" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chris Simcox</a>, however, claimed that it screens applications from participants for connections to white supremacists and kicked one person off who was posting comments on a white supremacist website. Simcox said that he was upset about the links and comments from white supremacist websites but said there was nothing he could do about them. An <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Aryan_Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Aryan Nation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Aryan Nation</a> website listed the Minuteman operation on its calendar of "white power" events and has a chat room specifically for the operation that contained postings talking about killing Mexican soliders and sending them home in body bags. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a>Gilchrest also denies charges of racism, saying, "Some people have said I'm racist, and that's just not true... My son-in-law is a full-on Mexican, and my grandson is half-Mexican... It's not a race thing. This is an enforcement of law issue. I've said this so many times I get tired talking about it." <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a>There has been some evidence that Neo-Nazis have been connected to the Minuteman Project, with the knowledge of the leadership. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=610" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">[9]</a><h3 style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Allegations of minutemen screwing up Border Patrol operations</h3>During a April 2005 convergence of Minuteman volunteers on the Arizona-Mexico border, the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S.Border_Patrol&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="U.S. Border Patrol (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Border Patrol</a> claimed the activists were accidentally setting of sensors that alert B.P. agents to border intruders. Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Jose Maheda said the actions were forcing agents to respond to false alarms. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a>"Every sensor has to be addressed," Maheda said. "It's taken away from our normal operations." <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a>The Border Patrol opposed the Minuteman operation. "The possibility for something going drastically wrong is very high," Maheda said. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a>The <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Federation_of_Government_Employees&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Federation of Government Employees (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Federation of Government Employees</a> (<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=AFL-CIO" title="AFL-CIO" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">AFL-CIO</a>) Local 2544 Border Patrol union, whose website is often critical of agency policy, posted a comment in 2005 there that contradicted the Border Patrol's allegations:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MINUTEMAN PROJECT: We want to make it clear because we've had a lot of questions about this.....we have not had one single complaint from a rank-and-file agent in this Sector about the Minutemen. Every report we've received indicates these people are very supportive of the rank-and-file agents, they're courteous, many of them are retired firefighters, cops, and other professionals, and they're not causing us any problems whatsoever. Reports of them causing "ground sensors" to go off are exaggerated because most of those are being set off by the ACLU sneaking around trying to find the Minutemen doing something wrong. The Minutemen have succeeded in shifting the bulk of the illegal alien traffic out of the Naco corridor. If only President Bush were so supportive of the rank-and-file agents.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></blockquote><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">General criticisms</h3>Human and civil rights groups stated that they would monitor the situation to ensure that the rights of illegal immigrants are respected. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7272318" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">[10]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Relationship with George W. Bush</h3>President <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_W.Bush" class="mw-redirect" title="George W. Bush" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">George W. Bush</a> said that "he opposes a civilian project to monitor illegal aliens crossing the border, characterizing them as 'vigilantes.'" <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Minuteman_Project#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Contact details</h2>The Minuteman Project Jim Gilchrist
P.O. Box 3944
Laguna Hills, California, 92654-3944
Website (General): <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.minutemanproject.com/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">http://www.minutemanproject.com/index.html</a>
Website (Border Patrollers):<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.minutemanhq.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">http://www.minutemanhq.com</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Articles and resources</h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">SourceWatch resources</h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Homeland_security" class="mw-redirect" title="Homeland security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">homeland security</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Illegal_immigration" title="Illegal immigration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">illegal immigration</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=North_American_Union" title="North American Union" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">North American Union</a> / <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=North_American_Union/Related_SourceWatch_Resources" title="North American Union/Related SourceWatch Resources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Related SourceWatch Resources</a></li></ul>=</div><div>=
<div>2016</div><div>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xd7jmn/what-happened-to-arizonas-minutemen</div><div>
</div><div>Jim Gilchrist truly believes he's an American hero. Gilchrist—a co-founder of the Minutemen Project, a now-defunct civilian border militia—insists it was his group's actions that led to the conservative fervor over cracking down on illegal immigration. He traces the current Republican discourse on the issue—Donald Trump's infamous wall, the renewed interest in revoking birthright citizenship, and the calls for mass deportations back to his movement, which mobilized hundreds of armed vigilantes to fend off migrants at the US-Mexico border back in the spring of 2005.<div class="ad-unitcontainercontainer" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; max-width: inherit;"><div class="article-iac__wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><div class="ad-width odd-not-rendered scroll-default m-b-5-xs" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 30px;"><div class="ad-unit text-center-xs scroll-default" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-align: center; position: relative; margin: 0px;"><div class="odd-container" id="scroll-default-1534393589142" data-google-query-id="CJHUoc3d8NwCFUgNNwodhNICUg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="teads-inread" style="box-sizing: content-box; overflow: hidden; height: 0px; transition: height 0.5s ease 0s; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px !important; position: relative;"><div class="teads-player" id="teads0" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><div class="teads-inread" style="box-sizing: content-box; overflow: hidden; height: 0px; transition: height 0.5s ease 0s; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px !important; position: relative;"><div class="teads-player" id="teads1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>"We had one thousand two hundred people show up that April, manning thirty-six makeshift outposts on twenty-three miles of the border in Arizona. They set up tents, homemade lean-tos, sleeping bags, and RVs. Half of them were armed, with pistols and revolvers and some rifles," Gilchrist said, reminiscing on his group's 30-day border campaign that drew <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/us/minutemen-end-unofficial-border-patrol-but-plan-to-return.html?r=0" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bold;">national media coverage</a>. "It attracted many more people than I thought—it grew legs of its own."Gilchrist, who is now 67, drove between the outposts in his green army vest, blue jeans, and hiking boots, carrying PowerBars, water, and his Colt 45 handgun.Between 2004 and 2009, Gilchrist's Minutemen were a powerful force in the anti-immigration movement, drawing in thousands of members who believed the government was doing too little to stop border crossings, and subsequently felt they should take enforcement into their own hands. The coalition against the Establishment—composed largely of veterans and retirees—tried to cover the border with "outposts," sometimes as barebones as lawn chairs, to block immigrants from coming into the US from Mexico. The movement fell apart after a few prominent members were arrested on murder and sex abuse charges, but their mark on conservative ideology had already been made, resulting in the passage of stringent anti-immigration legislation in several states.Now, years after the movement's disintegration, the Minutemen are <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/10/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-says-bernie-sanders-supported-minu/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bold;">making headlines</a> again—this time, in the 2016 presidential race. During a primary debate in Miami this month, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democratic-debate-in-miami-clinton-sanders-face-off-after-michigan-surprise/2016/03/09/92b73322-e601-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bold;">accused</a> her opponent, Bernie Sanders, of supporting the group by voting for a 2006 amendment that prevented the US Department of Homeland Security from "providing a foreign government with information relating to the activities of an organized volunteer civilian action group," including the Minutemen.According to Clinton, the vote amounted to tacit support for the vigilantes, who at the time were circulating a conspiracy theory that American border officials were tipping off the Mexican government to their "patrols." Unsurprisingly, Sanders has vehemently insisted that he "does not support vigilantes." But the attack has nonetheless become a central part of the Clinton campaign's argument against Sanders's immigration record, and it has been repeated often by the frontrunner's surrogates in the lead up to Arizona's presidential nominating contest Tuesday.While Democrats have used the Minutemen as a symbol for anti-immigration extremism, the Republican presidential candidates seem to have embraced the movement's message, if not the vigilantes themselves. In fact, Gilchrist thinks his group deserves credit for informing the GOP field's positions on the topic of immigration."My mission has been accomplished, and that was to force national awareness of the immigration issue," Gilchrist told me. "Now every political candidate has a platform on immigration. The Minutemen even inspired the Tea Party."  But while the legacy of the Minutemen may be imprinted on the Republican Party platform, the group itself has largely disappeared. Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, said this dissipation was largely because the movement's message was co-opted by the Conservative Establishment, which began pushing increasingly extreme immigration measures toward the end of the last decade.We saw even more radical legislation coming out of Alabama and Arizona than what was proposed by the Minutemen," Potok said. "When more extreme legislatures around the country began to take up this cause, there was not really a purpose for the Minutemen."The grassroots movement also splintered into rival factions, according to Harel Shapira, who embedded with the border vigilantes for years while writing his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Waiting-Jos%C3%A9-Minutemens-Pursuit-America/dp/0691152152" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Waiting for San Jose: The Minutemen's Pursuit of America</a>. At its peak, Shapira said, the Minutemen Project had 12,000 official members. But when Gilchrist and his fellow co-founder Chris Simcox ran for political office, many of those members felt alienated from the movement. (<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2005/dec/07/local/me-coxseat7" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Gilchrist ran for a congressional seat</a> in Orange County, California, in 2005, winning 25 percent of the vote, and <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/15/mccain.hayworth/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Simcox ran for US Senate</a> in Arizona in 2010. Neither bid was successful.)"Even though they didn't win, politicians started referencing members in speeches, so the Minutemen entered the public discourse and started getting much more money," Shapira said. "But for rank-and-file members, this was precisely what they didn't want. Part of the appeal [of the Minutemen] was that it was anti-government."The group was further splintered when two prominent members, including Simcox, were charged with horrific crimes: In 2009, Minutemen member Shawna Forde was <a href="http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090613/NEWS01/706139922" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">charged with killing</a> a girl and her father in an Arizona home invasion; <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/19/chris-simcox-minuteman-arrested_n_3469474.html?utm_hp_ref=politics" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Simcox was arrested</a> in 2013 for sexually abusing three young girls, including his daughter (<a href="http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/accused-child-molester-chris-simcoxs-trial-date-set-7867418" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">his trial</a> starts next month).But while the Minutemen Project may have fallen apart, many of its former members have found other vigilante pursuits, founding new civilian militias. Some, like <a href="https://www.arizonaborderrecon.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Arizona Border Recon</a>, continue to focus on patrolling the border for illegal crossings. Founded in 2011, Arizona Border Recon is mostly made up of veterans and ex-law enforcement, and has the stated mission of protecting America's "back door." Others groups operate like bounty hunters, traveling around Arizona to serve people with arrest warrants, or in an attempt to protect the border from terrorist threats."People who were original members of the Minutemen in Arizona are still down on the border patrolling," Shapira said. "The discourse is the same in that they're defending America from invasion, but now the focus is ISIS."Former Minuteman member Pete Lanteri, who became well-known for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/23liminu.html?pagewanted=all&r=0" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">organizing the Long Island, New York, chapter of the group</a>, now runs his own "school," a sort of training course in vigilante justice that prepares civilians for combat and other emergencies. Lanteri told me his group has "firearms, medical, and communications training, in cases of active shooters."Most recently, Lanteri ran the <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/what-we-know-so-far-now-that-jade-helm-15-has-begun-382" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">conspiracy-infused civilian operation known as Counter Jade Helm</a>, which surveyed the US military exercise Jade Helm in the Southern US last year. These days, he makes trips to patrol the border as often as he can. "A lot of us are still doing border operations, just under other groups," he told me.Despite this continued enthusiasm for monitoring the border, Gilchrist has struggled to organize further actions. He told me he was forced to cancel his latest planned mission, something he called "<a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/175028-minutemen-project-operation-normandy/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Operation Normandy</a>," after failing to rally sufficient troops."People didn't want to show up to fight when there was so much infighting about who is better to conduct this kind of operation," Gilchrist said of his fragmented movement. "We had about two thousand two hundred responses, but realistically, only ten percent of responders show up to fight—so around two hundred, which would be just a drop in the bucket."Though many former members have long since turned on one another, Howie Morgan, a former Minuteman who ran Gilchrist's congressional campaign, maintains that the group has already done fulfilled its original mission, forcing American politicians to steer more resources into beefing up law enforcement and security at the southern border."We wanted them to hire more patrols, to build a bigger wall and let's face it—immigration has been the number one, two, or three issue in Republican politics in the last decade," Morgan said. "Why is that so? Because Jim started this and said, 'We're not taking this anymore.'"What is the thing that took Donald Trump to the front of the race?" Morgan demanded. "He said we still haven't fixed the border. To say we're not relevant is ridiculous."<div>
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