Minutemen: If Government Doesn’t Build Border Fence, We Will Do It

Posted on April 21, 2006

Hat tip: Gateway Pundit
While the ACLU are losing in their fight against the Minutemen, the latest news is sure to get them riled up.

If the government doesn’t build a security fence along the Mexico border, Minuteman Project border watch leader Chris Simcox says he and his supporters will.

Simcox, whose civilian watch group opposes illegal immigration, said Wednesday that he was sending an ultimatum to President Bush to deploy military reservists to the Arizona border by May 25 or his supporters would break ground on their building project.

“We’re going to show the federal government how easy it is to build these security fences, how inexpensively they can be built when built by private people and free enterprise,” Simcox said.

Jeff Goldstein weighs in…

So long as the landowners approve of this, I have no problem with the effort.
I am still ambivalent about the fence idea—though I am leaning toward the Krauthammer position that, if we are talking about earned amnesty and guest worker programs, the compromise would be to tether such things to a secured border. And a security fence is the easiest way to accomplish such a thing.

On the other hand…..

The Minuteman Project is taking donations.

One Minuteman spokesperson estimated the fence would cost $10 million to $12 million, to start. He said $10,000 in donations were pledged in one day.

“What are they going to do; send the National Guard down to stop us?” asked Chris Simcox, of the Minutemen. “I mean, they won’t send the National Guard down to protect the United States. I wonder if they’re able to force an American Tiananmen Square situation, where we have our officials coming down stopping American citizens from protecting their own property.”

Here is the donation page.

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One Response to “Minutemen: If Government Doesn’t Build Border Fence, We Will Do It”

kerwin_brown on April 21st, 2006 10:02 pm

It is a brilliant and defiant move by the Minuteman Project. It turns up the pressure on our politicians.

In the end this issue will probably end up in the federal courts that are known to kowtow to the United Nation in defiance to the U.S. Constitution. We need to make changes there and are politicians will be reluctant to do that.