Minutemen To Monitor Illegals -- And Their Employers

Remember how the Houston Police Department ordered officers not to engage in any activities that might frighten or disturb the immigration criminals who have jumped the border illegally? Well, it looks like the Minutemen are going to do the cops' job for them.

The Minutemen are coming to Houston.

Leaders of the controversial group dedicated to stopping the flow of illegal immigration said they will patrol the streets of the Bayou City beginning in October, as part of a campaign that will extend north from the Mexican border. Houston volunteers will gather near day labor centers and corners where immigrant workers solicit work, in an effort to draw critical attention to the city's hands-off policy toward illegal immigrants.

"We will be videotaping the (day laborers) and we will be videotaping the contractors who pick them up," said Bill Parmley, a Goliad County landowner who heads the Texas chapter of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. The Minutemen will only observe to draw attention to the problem and will not attempt to make arrests, he said.

The city and the Chronicle, of course, don't like the fact that American citizens want American law enforced.

It was not immediately clear what reaction the Minuteman effort would have in greater Houston, which is home to an estimated 350,000 to 400,000 illegal immigrants, according to demographers. Polling finds Houstonians generally support immigration.

Nearly 60 percent of Houstonians do not think illegal immigrants are a major cause of unemployment in the area, and 67 percent think the diversity brought by immigration is a good thing, according to recent data from the Houston Area Survey, annual studies conducted by Rice University sociologist Stephen Klineberg.

Hey, I don't care if they are a source of unemployment. They are here in violation of American law and American sovereignty. And while I'm all for cultural diversity, I would much prefer that we have secure borders and a full accounting of who is in the United States. These are LAWBREAKERS!

I'll say it right now -- this Hustonian welcomes the Minutemen, and wants to see them successfully identify the immigration criminals and the businesses that illegally employ them. I want to see the border-jumpers deported, and the employers prosecuted. And if I can help in any way, I am interested in being a part of the program.

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