ILLEGAL Aliens, Borders, and MinuteMan Project

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MinuteMan Project (MMP) is a citizens' neighborhood watch along our borders

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Thousands of "layup areas," like the one pictured above, are scattered across southern Arizona (and New Mexico and Texas and California). Many are close to residental homes, both rural and suburban. Many are up to 30 miles inside the US border.  Illegal aliens rest at these layup areas before moving on or before being picked up. Sometimes locals and accomplices of coyotes (guides) will leave food and water at these layup areas.  Before being picked up, illegal aliens change clothes and discard practically everything they have in order to quickly squeeze more people into transportation vehicles.

THE ROGER HEDGECOCK RADIO SHOW

KOGO/AM 600 - 3P - 6P (Pacific)
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
THE RADIO MAYOR OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MONDAY MAY 2ND , 2005

D.C. TRIP was historic and amazing and productive. Three months or so of planning, coordinating and herding cats (read: talkshow hosts) paid off with a citizen-lobby effort the likes that D.C. has never seen. As usual the tale is summed up by numbers.

500 LISTENERS AND IMMIGRATION REFORM ADVOCATES
18 RADIO TALK SHOW HOSTS FROM ACROSS AMERICA
PAID OUR OWN WAY TO D.C. = A MILLION BUCKS ($2000 a pop)
SECURE BORDERS MESSAGE REACHES EVERY (400+) MEMBER OF CONGRESS
SECURE BORDERS MESSAGE REACHES MILLIONS OF RADIO LISTENERS
HR 418 MOVES AHEAD
HOLD THEIR FEET TO THE FIRE XI CULMINATES 30 DAYS OF MINUTEMEN VIGIL.

To really make the case for the history involved here… note:
While we were in D.C., a dozen busses unloaded folks in green t-shirts in front of the Hyatt Hotel on New Jersey Avenue. A union had rented the busses and transported hundreds of somebodies from many states to lobby against Social Security Reform. The t-shirts, busses, meals etc all paid for by the union in question.  For the bussed in union folks it was a day off from work (likely with pay) to follow the direction of union leadership and march with banners in the sunshine, paid for by the union. Get the point?

Our Hold Their Feet To The Fire XI citizen-lobby was funded by a special interest as well. OUR OWN!! We paid our own airfare, hotel, meals, paid for t-shirts, tote bags, campaign buttons etc to do the work that our elected lawmakers and Commander In Chief will not do…SECURE OUR BORDERS.

SO WHAT DID WE ACCOMPLISH if anything by this remarkable endeavor? First we confounded Congress and the White House. We rallied in the park across from the White House and demanded Border Security (you can’t have social security if you don’t have national security) and sent a message to the man we elected to be President and Commander in Chief: Secure Our Borders.

The congress actually moved on HR 418, the bill to make it tough for an illegal to get a legal drivers license anywhere in USA, etc. On Monday as we launched our citizen-lobby campaign the Senate democrat leader acknowledged he did not have the votes to stop 418. As the week progressed, in informal conference 418 moved forward…and we’re told by insiders that was largely as a result of our being everywhere on the hill on April 25, 26 and 27th.

And finally we made the case that was made some time ago by the founding guys…like “this land is our land.” It’s not Mexico land or Canada land or Osama land. It belongs to us and the folks we paid visits to last week work for us.

Ahead. Minutemen will be coming to San Diego. Along our "here at home" border with Mexico: The fence at Smugglers Gulch in IB will be built, if not by the "gummint" then by us. (serious as a heart attack folks). We’ll help the Minutemen as they target employers who hire illegals. The April offense to secure our borders was a beginning. As Chris Simcock of the Minutemen told ROGER on the radio and told our rally at the White House: “we’ll be on the border until we are relieved by the national guard or other federal agencies.” Listen up daily as the April offensive moves into May, June, July etc.

OVER THE COMING DAYS I’LL TRY TO THANK A LOT OF FOLKS…there are so many.  But first thanks really have to go to the 400+ folks who took time off from work, paid their own airfare, hotel bills, meal tabs and transport around D.C. For us in radio, it’s our job. We worked a bit harder than usual but it’s what we do for a living. For our citizen-lobbyists it was often a hardship to find the time and the money to be Patriots. Folks put their time, loot and sweat where their mouths are located.

**COLORADO CONGRESSMAN TOM TANCREDO was our keynote speaker at our wrap up Celebration Dinner in D.C. on Wednesday evening. Lots of applause but none so long nor loud as when Tom told us that we are at war but it is not a war on terror. He can’t abide that term. The war he sez is a war against extreme Islam. It ain’t real correct to say that but it is stark truth.  I’m gonna lose the "war on terror" line from now on. As Tom sez you cannot defeat your enemy unless you are willing to face your enemy in combat.  There ain’t no army called “terror,” out there folks.

**WE POSTED MOST OF THE PIX from Hold Their Feet To The Fire XI on ROGER’S website over the past weekend…several hundred (sorry but I wanted faces to be seen). On ROGER’S main page at the top left. A few more to come but most are there.  Plus we archived our shows from D.C. so you can take a second listen if you are of a mind to do so.

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