Just read today that the minutemen are back patrolling the boarder to the Great White North.
They tried last year for a while in October, but didn't catch or see anyone.
Then it got cold, so they went home.
Now it's spring, and they are back for another stint of weekend warrior. "Break out the night vision goggles Earl, we're going in"
I was hoping that they would have done this sort of thing in January and February on the Saskatchewan boarder, but no luck there I guess.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2...509611-cp.html
(CP) - An American civilian group will soon be on the lookout again for illegal migrants entering the United States from Canada along stretches of the border.
Starting April 1, volunteers with the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, angered with the ongoing entry of illegal migrants to the United States, will be watching from New York to New Hampshire at locations yet to be disclosed. Washington state volunteers are also to be on guard.
"There's no real border security, and we feel there's a good chance terrorists could get in," said Peter Lanteri, a Long Island resident and head of the initiative in New York state.
"What we're doing is a neighbourhood watch on our own border. We are another set of eyes, just as the government asked Americans to be after 9-11."
Lanteri expects 36 volunteers to take part in New York state - most of them former military and law-enforcement officers concerned about both economic migrants, criminals and potential terrorists. The group claims 6,500 volunteers throughout the United States.
Russ Delacy, a spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol, the mobile uniformed law-enforcement arm of the Department of Homeland Security, says the government neither supports nor discourages Minutemen work.
"We answer their calls just as we would anyone else's. As long as they aren't breaking any laws, we treat them like any other citizen," Delacy said from his office in Stanton, Vt.
DeLacy said that during fiscal year 2005, the Border Patrol apprehended 856 illegal aliens who failed to enter at official crossings along a 420-kilometre stretch of the border between the Thousand Islands and New Hampshire.
In October, New York Minutemen were on guard in Washington state, Vermont and, for two nights, near Massena, N.Y., but had no sightings.
This year, the observation is planned to last a week. Month-long patrols of the southern U.S. border along several states are also to start Saturday. The group patrolled the Arizona border for a month last year.
http://www.minutemanhq.com/state/rea...ter=NY&sid=110