http://mediamatters.org/items/200512120004Dobbs: "I support the Minuteman Project and the fine Americans who make it up in all they've accomplished, fully, relentlessly, and proudly"Summary: Responding to a critical Wall Street Journal editorial, CNN's Lou Dobbs announced his support for the Minuteman Project, in which volunteers monitor the U.S.-Mexico border for illegal immigrants.
During a discussion of a December 9 Wall Street Journal editorial on immigration on the December 9 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, host Lou Dobbs announced, "I support the Minuteman Project and the fine Americans who make it up in all they've accomplished, fully, relentlessly, and proudly."
The Minuteman Project describes its movement as "a call 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." Among its activities is the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, groups of volunteers who monitor U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada to help stop what it calls "{t}he human flood breaching our Homeland Defense." The Minuteman Project has been touted by conservative outlets such as Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, which has featured Minuteman organizers and supporters, often without providing an opposing viewpoint.
5i Team Undercover: Beyond the Minutemen http://www.kpho.com/Global/story.asp?S=4830062&nav=DIH7 The debate over illegal immigration has divided the state and country.
No matter what your views are, you may be interested in what our 5-i Team found when they went "undercover" and joined some so-called "anti-immigration" vigilante groups. snip
These groups are popping up right and left, most of them off-shoots of the widely-publicized Minuteman Project.
We wanted to see what the members of these groups are like when they're in their own element - away from reporters and photographers.
So a month and a-half ago.. we packed our hidden cameras.. and "signed up." snip
Fred Puckett says, "And once you shoot a couple of these son of a b@#$%es, they'll think twice."