Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border

The minutemen have no legal standing to interfere with actual immigration. Crawling over or under a fence is against the law. We have a hard enough time tracking legals that become violent criminals. Should an illegal become one, its 10 times harder to find them. In many instances they pay no social security, no Federal or State taxes. Just sales tax when they buy something. It is a safety issue and an economic drain. The government wastes BILLIONS on Iraq but wont spend a dime on the border.

all americans are illegal immergrants. just look at your own history

this country's already overrun with immergrants just look around . what white, black,asian or middle eastern people where indigenous to america. how do you think the Natives felt when all the undesirables flocked in from europe, plundering the resources killing them for walking on there own land . as I see it everyone in the country is an immergrant with the exception of the "NATIVE" Americans. get over it if it weren't for immergrants you wouldn't be here.

The Minutemen don't actually detain, order or even touch anyone. They just call the police when they see border crossings. They carry firearms for their own protection because the border is extremely dangerous because of the drug trade and human trafficking from Mexico. There was actually an incident a while back where a Minuteman found a Mexican dying of thirst and ended up getting kicked out of the Minutemen because he broke their strict nonintervention rules by taking him to the hospital.

we mexican citizens are just victims of an opressing system that has forced us to do this,we do not want to leave our families and homeland,but we have to do it,it is a matter of survival,some do it by stealing public money and resources like gold and oil,we do it by working were we can get paid enough to provide for our family,i bet you would do it to,if you had the need...

how come these poor opresed people can only organize and rise up here and no back home

Universal Declaration of Human Rights


Article 13
1.Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.

2.Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

I am sorry to hear that you were homeless,
but I am an American born Mexican that was also homeless and if you think my family received help because of our skin color then you are mistaken. We had to pick ourselves up by our bootstraps.

Stop raping the nation of Mexico and maybe their citizens will stop fleeing into the U.S.