Protecting The Line: I Am A Minuteman

The reason for the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps is essentially quite simple; the chief reason is because of the unattended borders that are virtually wide open. There’s also a lack of interest enforcing the laws and the government is not holding people that hire illegal aliens accountable for their actions. Those three elements are very important for what we do.

The impact of illegal aliens is huge. The amount of vandalism that happens in their wake, the trash that’s left behind and destruction of people’s lands is just a start. The excuse, of course, is that our immigration laws have faltered, and I don’t see where they’re faltering. The problem is that we’re not enforcing any of it.

I’ve been a Minuteman for more than four years now. Why did I join? First off, I had an experience when I retired to Arizona from southern California, where I was a private investigator for around 32 years. I loved the area here in Arizona where I currently reside and I bought a small little ranch. My first experience with illegal aliens happened shortly after I moved, approximately three to four days, after I surrounded my property with a chain link fence.

On about the third day that the fence was up, it was pulled down in the southwest corner and I noticed that there were approximately 12 to 15 illegal aliens who had taken it upon themselves to break over the fence into the garage out there. The corner I’m speaking of is quite dark and is surrounded by trees, so it was obvious that they used that area as a lay up area – nobody would see them because they were far from sight.