>>> WASHINGTON - The Mexican army is escorting those attempting to cross
>>> over the U.S. border illegally - including known drug-runners - to
>>> areas not patrolled by the Minuteman Project near Naco, Ariz., say
>>> Border Patrol sources and other officials including a U.S.
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>> congressman.
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>>> Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., and chairman of the Congressional
>>> Immigration Reform Caucus, denounced the action by the Mexican
>>> military and called on President Bush to do the same.
>>>
>>>
>>> "President Bush should publicly denounce Mexico's latest act to curb
>>> U.S. law," said Tancredo. "The president of Mexico is threatening to
>>> sue any member of the Minuteman who have contact with a Mexican
>>> national, threatening to take the U.S. into the International Court
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>> of
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>>> Justice at the Hague over the passage of Prop 200 in Arizona, and is
>>> providing transportation to Mexican nationals trying to sneak into
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>> the
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>>> U.S. One could say he is acting in the best interest of his nation.
>>> Isn't it unfortunate we cannot say the same thing about President
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>> Bush?"
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>>> Grey Deacon, a spokesman for the Minuteman Project, reported illegal
>>> immigration is down considerably from previous months in the area
>>> patrolled by the U.S. citizen volunteers trying to bring attention to
>>> the problem of the porous border. While he claimed credit for 241
>>> Minuteman-assisted apprehensions by the Border Patrol in the week
>>> since the project began, he pointed out the 23-mile section of the
>>> border normally sees thousands of crossing attempts a day while they
>>> have been numbered in the dozens a day since the project began.
>>>
>>> He said the Minutemen aided today in the capture of a "coyote," a
>>> professional human smuggler.
>>>
>>> "But the traffic is down because the Mexican military is leading
>>> illegal aliens, including drug smugglers, away from the area of the
>>> border we are patrolling," he said.
>>>
>>> Border Patrol sources say the Mexican army recently moved about 1,000
>>> troops to the Agua Prieta region, just south of where the Minutemen
>>> are. These troops, the sources say, are diverting all of the illegal
>>> alien and drug-smuggling traffic away from the Minutemen.
>>>
>>> Just prior to the launch of the Minuteman Project March 30, Miguel
>>> Escobar Valdez, Mexican consul in Douglas, Ariz., said the Mexican
>>> military was bracing for possible violence on the border.
>>>
>>> "The Mexican army is on alert," Escobar said. "Also, law enforcement
>>> will be vigilant because the situation is very volatile. This is
>>> because, I have to say it, there are violent and radical elements on
>>> both sides of the border."
>>>
>>> The Minuteman Project is a group of about 1,000 U.S. volunteers
>>> patrolling the U.S. side of the border on a 23-mile stretch in
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>> Arizona
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>>> near Naco. When they spot illegal aliens crossing the border, they
>>> alert Border Patrol agents to make arrests. The members plan to stay
>>> through the end of April.
>>>
>>> The volunteers focused on the border area near Naco because it had
>>> become one of the highest traffic corridors for border-crossing
>>> illegal aliens. Last year, more than 40 percent of the 1.15 million
>>> illegal aliens caught by the Border Patrol were taken into custody in
>>> the southern Arizona region.
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>
> It is clear that the Mexican Government is conducting an invasion of
> the US and the Administration (Big Buisness) likes it.
>