October 1, 2008
Contact: Alex Segura
Since April 2005 members of the Utah Minuteman Project have been involved performing border patrols to subsidize the work of the U.S. Border Patrol.
Our patrols provide any extra set of ears and eyes as well as a voice to help the border patrol and their officers who serve as our country’s first line of defense to keep unauthorized people and cargo from entering into the United States.
We have planned yet another trip to the Arizona Mexico border October 18th to the 20th. We will work in conjunction with the local border watch groups to help patrol in the capacity of neighborhood watch volunteers.
This year a Republican member of the House of Representatives Stephen Sandstrom from District 58 has enlisted us to assist him during this October’s eighth border watch event.
He has also invited Rep. Chris Herrod from District 62 a Republican to join in the October event and he has accepted.They will be joined by Utah Minuteman Project Founder Alex Segura and Director Eli Cawley.
House members will inspect the new fencing, patrol the Arizona Mexico border both during the night and day, will be actively involved in meeting with local residents who live along the border fence, with Tucson sector border patrol officers, Tucson sector legislators as well as with local law enforcement personal.
This trip is planed as a way to have members of the Utah legislature directly involved in the everyday lives of the people who live and work on the border and what they endure.
There are also the indirect effects of Utah laws that encourage illegal immigration from Mexico through Arizona and its ill effects on Arizona as a result, even in the face of Arizona’s new get tough law.
Our hope is to have the House Members bring back their experience and pass it along to their counterparts in the legislature as a guide to understand the effects of the immigration laws they draft here have on other bordering states and their citizens.
