Border watchers say they'll target five more states

"...the Minuteman patrols will continue indefinitely until Congress commits to funding the deployment of the National Guard or military along the border."

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Border watchers say they'll target five more states
By Ignacio Ibarra and Mary Vandeveire
ARIZONA DAILY STAR

The Minuteman Project will expand its border watch efforts from Arizona to include California, New Mexico, Texas, Michigan and Idaho, said organizers Chris Simcox and James Gilchrist at a press conference held in Tombstone Monday.

Citizens there have begun organizing their own Minuteman spinoffs, Simcox said.

Gilchrist will also begin organizing the group's efforts to take the Minuteman Project to the nation's interior, going after the businesses that employ illegal border crossers and stepping up efforts to lobby Congress to put the National Guard or the U.S. military on the border.

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On the other front, Simcox said he and Gilchrist will step up their efforts to lobby the U.S. Congress next week when they travel to Washington for an April 27 meeting with members of the congressional Immigration Reform Caucus.

Simcox said they will tell the caucus members that the Minuteman patrols will continue indefinitely until Congress commits to funding the deployment of the National Guard or military along the border.

"This is a no-compromise situation. We will not discontinue patrolling the border until the Congress funds and clears the way for the National Guard, and/or specially trained military troops, to follow our model that we've created," Simcox said. "We have the people of the United States behind us in overwhelming numbers."

Simcox said the first two weeks of the monthlong Arizona Minuteman Project have been a resounding success, exceeding expectations, choking off illegal entries along the 23-mile stretch of border in Cochise County where project volunteers have focused their efforts since April 1.

He said the project has attracted worldwide attention and sent a strong message to Congress that Americans have the will to force the government to do its job of protecting the nation's borders.

It has also brought a flood of more than 10,000 new volunteers that will allow the project to expand farther and faster than planned, Simcox said.

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We've proven that the border can be secured by using a different model than the Border Patrol has been using in the past," said Simcox.

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