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Do a news search of the Minuteman Border Project  (the result posted below are from Google) and from the coverage you get the idea the media does not much like this group. Trying to find a balanced article, one that tells you as much about the group as one that tells you who does not liek it, is all but impossible. 

There simply is no news that is good news when it comes to a citizens group joining to control our borders - at least in the reporting of the nation's main stream media. Posted below are the results of a search on the Minuteman Project  joining in where our government has is so clearly failing. 

• Minuteman border project challenged by activists
  Press-Enterprise (subscription), CA - Mar 19, 2005 ... Navarro said his coalition would warn people at the border about Minuteman, and would confine themselves to nonviolent tactics. ...

• Border Patrol discourages civilian help
  Seattle Post Intelligencer - Mar 15, 2005 ... people taking an interest in and getting involved in governmental affairs, the Minuteman Project goes beyond being "conducive to a safe border environment.". ...

• Be suspicious of Minuteman border patrol
  Pioneer Press, MN - Mar 4, 2005 ... Gilchrist's effort — The Minuteman Project — has already drawn nearly 700 volunteers who are intent on "securing the US border." An additional 200 people ...

• Deseret News Gang will target Minuteman vigil on Mexico border
  Washington Times, DC - 9 hours ago ... Members of a violent Central America-based gang have been sent to Arizona to target Minuteman Project volunteers, who will begin a monthlong border vigil this ...

• 'Vigilantes' set for Mexico border patrol
  BBC News Border 'patrol' bad idea Athens Banner-Herald (subscription)

• Do-It-Yourself Border Patrol
  TIME MichNews.com - Mohave Valley News - all 20 related »

• Central American Gang Threatens Volunteer US Border Patrol
  Voice of America - 1 hour ago ... southwestern US state of Arizona to attack Minuteman Project volunteers, as they begin a month-long campaign to help patrol the southern US border with Mexico. ...

• Hindsight & Foresight. Have we lost sight?
  MichNews.com, MI - 2 hours ago ... Much like the Minuteman Project will be doing for our law enforcement personnel ... your national security policy in place when you have a border where terrorists ...

• Minuteman Project mistakes nature of immigration problem
  East Valley Tribune, AZ - 12 hours ago It will be fascinating to see how the Minuteman Project, the brainstorm of Aliso ... desert in April for illegal immigrants and report them to the Border Patrol. ...

• MINUTEMEN SEEK PROTECTION FROM ACLU
  PHXNews, AZ - 18 hours ago I am one of the coordinators of the Minuteman Project, a grassroots ... any suspected illegal activity where crossing over the US international border into the 

• The Border War
  Newsweek - Mar 26, 2005 ... the Arizona border in search of illegal aliens. The brainchild of an ex-schoolteacher from California named Chris Simcox, the so-called Minuteman Project will ...

• Letters - Helping Border Patrol do its job?
  OCRegister (subscription), CA - Mar 26, 2005 ... Riverside and the other students need to find another social issue to protest ["Border watcher draws protest,'' Local News, March 20]. The Minuteman Project is

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Calls private group patrolling the border  "vigilantes."
Undocumented population soars to 10.3 million

Illegals and What To Do?
By Russell Betts - Editor, GoGov.com

For every action there is a consequence. And in the case of illegal immigration, the consequence is millions living in the U.S. illegally, the vast majority peacefully, working and with no hostile intent to the United States. Others are criminals doing harm. And certainly terrorist waiting and planning to do us significant harm have slipped in. This is the consequence of our inaction in securing our borders.

In January, President Bush announced a plan to grant temporary legal status to millions of undocumented aliens working in the United States. It met a chilly reception then. And now that Bush has brought it up again (see story here), it will be opposed by those who say you should not reward illegal immigration. 

To those I say, you are not thinking the problem through. It is not rewards we are passing out. It is consequences we are dealing with. The consequences of years of completely ignoring millions living here illegally.

Dealing with the millions here illegally has only three options: We can continue to ignore the problem and those living here illegally, we can round up all illegals and ship them back, or we can sort out who is here, get those that are here and working with peaceful intent registered, and put them on a track to become legal residents and even new citizens.

The last option will not sit well with those that say we can not reward illegal immigration. The problem with that approach is the other two options are either no good or not possible. Uncontrolled mass and illegal immigration was never acceptable but the only only realistic option is to put these millions on the road to legal status. 

Before that can happen, however, Bush must address the other argument against rewarding those that came to the U.S. illegally. It can not allow that program to become a lure for millions more to illegally enter thinking that if they only get to the U.S. before the deadline they will be okay.

A program towards legalization can not be put in place until the U.S. has successfully put in place strong and effective border control. Without doing this first, Bush's plan to deal with the illegals here will only make the problem that much worse.

How can we reward people that came here illegally? That is not the question. The question is, how do we deal with the problem we ourselves created. The answer is, we must solve the problem. Solving the problem of illegal residents is not a matter of rewards. It is a matter of consequences. It is time to pay for our inaction. And it is time to make sure future inaction does not lead us into a worsening of the problem.

Reagan's Defense Vision Takes First Step
by Russell Betts - July 22, 2004

They tried to paint the late President Ronald Reagan a war-monger when he confronted the former Soviet Union with missile installations in Europe. And they labeled Reagan's initiative for a system of defenses to stop incoming inter-continental ballistic missiles "Star Wars", a slur designed to cast Reagan's vision for a missile defense system in the worst possible light. 

But as history showed, while still alive, Reagan had the last laugh. His initiatives in Europe in large part brought peace not war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Reagan saw that the only thing the Soviets would understand was force. And in so doing he brought a large measure of peace to the world.

While Reagan did not live long enough to see the installation of a U.S. system of missile defenses that he envisioned, that vision did finally take its first step into reality today with the first installation of a a ground-based missile interceptor installed Thursday in Alaska's Interior — the first component of a national defense system designed to shoot down enemy missiles.

Five additional interceptors will be installed at the 700-acre complex — another four at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California — by the end of the year. Ten more will be installed at Fort Greely by late 2005.

Complex, yes. Is America up to the challenge? Ronald Reagan thought so.

Had We Known Then
What America Knows Now
by Russell Betts July 12, 2003

After what was found in Iraq and learned about Saddam and Sons, it is without question that the former Iraqi regime itself was a weapon of mass destruction. Biological dirty bombs, nuclear weapons programs or sponsoring terrorist for such acts as flying planeloads of people into buildings, it is all the same.

Liberal critics of the President, however, latch on to a different post war theme. "It is not what we were told we would find" is their complaint about White House communications prior to the war. For purely political ends, they beat this drum in hopes someone will listen.

Beat as they might, nearly everyone sees the effort in Iraq had good results for our country. Few listen when they can see for themselves what should be obvious to all – and is to most – that a man that would hold his own people in dungeons, torture and maim them would have no second thoughts about funding another major terror strike against our country.

The message of the war has been heard. No matter what the intelligence was before the war, no matter what we were told we would find, what we found was as bad or worse. Anything now about us being misled about weapons of mass destruction is only partisan background noise against an outcome an overwhelming majority of Americans agree with.

And had we been told then what America knows now, most Americans would still have given President Bush the go-ahead to move on Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

The Remaking of History Omission of the Left
Information Media Clearing House claims the scene of Saddam's statue being pulled down was staged by the U.S. military.

Causes like the Information Clearing House will continue their attempts to remake history because history as made in Iraq did not fit their political bias and motivation. Coalition forces and the leadership of George Bush, Tony Blair, John Howard and other world leaders that supported the liberation could not have done something good, so thinks Information Clearing House. The scenes of liberation, even a scene of just one boy and just one soldier, tell a different story, the true story of the liberation of Iraq.