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RUSH: We\u2019ve talked about this, and here\u2019s the latest on it. You know, there\u2019s an operation called the Minuteman Project. It\u2019s a border vigil and it is set to begin on April 1st. You have some peaceable protesters who are going to go along the border, US and Mexico — two thousand miles is the length of this border — and we reported on this last week. There was a to it. Some Mexican government foreign minister are something had sent out warnings to the US government: “You better not take the occasion of these protesters to beat up the immigrants. Our illegal immigrants have rights and they better not be beaten up,” and of course there\u2019s no intention to beat anybody up here on the part of the Minuteman Project. “More than one thousand volunteers expected to take part in a month long vigil on the Arizona-Mexico border on what organizers say will be peaceful protesters on the government\u2019s failure to control illegal immigration. They\u2019re going to have guidelines on how to avoid confrontations and handle the press.” I\u2019m just envisioning this here. So you\u2019re going to have vigils along the border; here come the illegals. What\u2019s supposed to happen, you wave at them as they walk by? You continue to carry your protest placard as the illegals walk by or do you stop them? I\u2019d deputize these people. (Laughing.) I would deputize them. <\/line>“This call for volunteers is not a call to arms but a call to voices, seeking peaceful and respectable resolve to the chaotic neglect by members of our local, state and federal governments charged with applying US immigration law.” This was said by James Gilchrist, the “organizer of the so-called Minuteman Project border vigil. About 700 volunteers expected at opening day rallies with more joining as the vigil continues through April 30th near the United States Border Patrol stations in Naco, Arizona and Douglas, Arizona. Volunteers have been told to let the agents know that we appreciate their efforts. The volunteers will operate under guidelines issued by the border vigil organizers, calling for them not to spark confrontations with the outside protesters or create negative press coverage.” You won\u2019t have to create any negative press coverage. Just showing up you\u2019re going to get it, you guys. I just want to warn you. You\u2019re going to get negative press coverage the moment you show up. You may as well do what you want to do because it\u2019s going to be reported negatively anyway. “The volunteers have been told that some people will try to provoke confrontations and that they should not react. They\u2019ve also been told to be careful of what they say to members of the press because they can be the enemy.” (Laughing.) <\/line>That\u2019s good! Whoever is organizing this bunch knows the score! “Give the press no reason to use a sound bite that will cleverly be used to make you look bad,” one of the guidelines says. “If there are opposition protesters you can send them a message by ignoring them. Wave, smile and ignore all idiots. Let them make fools of themselves but don\u2019t stoop to their level of ignorance. Let the media show them as the aggressors. This will be a peaceful protest,” says the guideline. “According to the guidelines volunteers will not be permitted to carry rifles but will be allowed to carry handguns if they\u2019re licensed to do so. An operational plan calls for teams of four to six persons to be assigned at intervals of 200 to 300 yards to be deployed along a 20-mile stretch of the border known as the San Pedro River Valley. The plan also calls for the volunteers to go no closer to the border than one mile, and they have been told to make lots of noise and burn campfires at night to be very visible.” You can only go one mile near the border? That means a bunch of illegals could sneak in and the Minuteman Project wouldn\u2019t even see them. I mean a mile is a long way on foot. You ever walked a mile, Mr. Snerdley? I\u2019ll tell you what, that\u2019s no piece of cake. All right. I do find this interesting. Here we have some volunteers.. Why don\u2019t just apprehend the illegals, turn them over? Well, I know they\u2019re going to report them to the Border Patrol, but it would be great if they were deputize. Never happen. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Byron. This is Lansing, Michigan. Byron, welcome to the EIB Network.<\/line>CALLER: Hello, Rush. God bless you, sir. Thank you for your good work.<\/line>RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/line>CALLER: Yeah. I would like to clear up some misconceptions about the Minuteman Project, of which I am a member. We are down there for the purpose of protesting our government\u2019s failure to secure our southern border. Consider us a sort of Neighborhood Watch for the southern border. We will be there to observe movement across the border, report it to the Border Patrol. We are not there to prevent anyone from crossing. That\u2019s the Border Patrol\u2019s job. We won\u2019t accost anybody arrest anybody or anything of that nature.<\/line>RUSH: Well, the Mexican government thinks you\u2019re going to be protesting their illegals, and they\u2019re warning everybody to make sure you don\u2019t beat them up.<\/line>CALLER: Oh, no.<\/line>RUSH: Because those illegals have rights.<\/line>CALLER: Well, see, we won\u2019t be interacting with them in that way.<\/line>RUSH: You\u2019re gonna be a mile away. If you see one, I\u2019d like to know it.<\/line>CALLER: Like I said, our protest is not against the Mexicans. Those people most of them are trying to make a better life for themselves.<\/line>RUSH: Yes.<\/line>CALLER: But it\u2019s necessary that they do it by legal means.<\/line>RUSH: Yes.<\/line>CALLER: And our government has failed to enforce that necessity and we\u2019re just going to assist the Border Patrol in doing its job.<\/line>RUSH: Now, what do you hope to illustrate here, that the Border Patrol is not doing its job and that the government is not doing its job because you\u2019re going to report what you see and then no action will be taken and you\u2019re going to say see?<\/line>CALLER: Well, actually that\u2019s not what\u2019s happened. We\u2019ve already had people from our group down there; they have reported movement across the border to the Border Patrol. The Border Patrol responds to it and has picked up a number of people.<\/line>RUSH: You guys remind me of Ashley Smith. Ashley Smith in Atlanta? She goes and captures the bad guy and then tells the authorities where he is.<\/line>CALLER: Well, the Border Patrol does a lovely job but they are seriously undermanned and we\u2019re just standing in the gap.<\/line>RUSH: What do you think about using the National Guard for this?<\/line>CALLER: I think that\u2019s a wonderful idea. I would like to see some of our bases not closed, but relocated to the border and put the National Guard, you know, in the business of protecting the country.<\/line>RUSH: What about using the full-fledged US military instead of the National Guard?<\/line>CALLER: I don\u2019t know that that would be necessary. I think the National Guard alone would have more than enough capability to do the job, but the US military regular forces could be used as a supplement to back them up and for training purposes.<\/line>RUSH: Well, but the problem, that\u2019s not really legal. Military is not employed to be employed for those purposes domestically.<\/line>CALLER: Would it not be legal to deploy standard US forces for the purposes of preventing an invasion?<\/line>RUSH: Yeah. I know, that\u2019s why I asked you what your thought on this was.<\/line>CALLER: Oh, well, it\u2019s perfectly legal to prevent foreign people from crossing the border illegally. That\u2019s an illegal migration, could even be deemed an unarmed invasion, and we certainly have a legal right to use our military to prevent that.<\/line>RUSH: So how many of you… I know the newspaper story I had mentions 400 or more, or 800 or more. How many do you think will actually end up before the month of April is over, that you\u2019ll have down there on the protesting with you? Or the vigil.<\/line>CALLER: I could do no more than guess, but I would say we\u2019ll have at least 700, and I would expect more than a thousand over the month period.<\/line>RUSH: Now, what\u2019s interesting to me about this and I want to make this point, you\u2019re from Lansing, Michigan, right?<\/line>CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/line>RUSH: Do you know there\u2019s a northeastern state that has one of the greatest concentrations of illegal immigrants through our southern border? It\u2019s New Jersey. My point here is that this is not just an issue any longer that\u2019s upsetting to people in Arizona or California or Texas. It\u2019s branched beyond Border States now. The fact that Byron here is going to go down there from Lansing, Michigan. Byron, I\u2019ve got ten seconds. What do you do for a living?<\/line>CALLER: I\u2019m actually a retired auto worker from General Motors —<\/line>RUSH: Oh, okay.<\/line>CALLER: — and I work part time in a bicycle shop.<\/line>RUSH: Okay, okay, I was wondering how you were going to find time to do this and that explains it. Just wanted to make sure you\u2019re not part of a rent-a-mob out there. They have no credibility. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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