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The Minuteman Project News release, April 7, 2004
http://www.minutemanproject.com/newsmedia/news_release_2005apr07.html
MINUTEMAN PROJECT (MMP)
www.minutemanproject.com
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Fred Elbel, MMP Media Liaison
Telephone: 520-457-3008
email: [email protected]
www.MinuteManProject.com
Minuteman dismissed over bowl of cereal
Cleared of wrongdoing, but violated procedures
April 7, 2005 (Tombstone AZ)---A Minuteman Project (MMP) volunteer has been dismissed from further participating in the project after he shared a bowl of cereal with a suspected illegal alien he encountered along the Arizona-Mexico border. A project organizer said the volunteer had violated established MMP policy.
The volunteer encountered the suspect near a main highway while off duty from MMP patrolling. Believing the man to be in distress from exposure and lack of fluids and food, the volunteer gave him a bowl of cereal and milk. He then contacted the Border Patrol. The volunteer reportedly shook the suspects hand, help up a lettered T-Shirt to commemorate the event, and gave the man $20 just before the Border Patrol arrived and took the suspect into custody. An investigation of the incident by the Cochise County Sheriff's office cleared the volunteer of any wrongdoing.
But project organizers said they have a strictly enforced policy that no contact be made with suspects. Project volunteers are only to observe suspected aliens and then report those observations to the Border patrol. The project co-founder, Chris Simcox, said, "The volunteer's actions were admirable, justified and undeniably humane, but unfortunately they jeopardized our established procedures and overall purpose of passively monitoring the border. It's unfortunate, but we had to dismiss him from further participation."
The Minuteman Project is an effort by what organizers say will be an eventual more than one thousand volunteers from the 50 states throughout the month of April to patrol along a 23-mile section of the Arizona border with Mexico. Simcox said that powerful forces are out to malign and sabotage the project. He said, "Our adversaries will take even then most benign event and try to develop it into an international incident. We cannot allow any digression from our established policies and procedures."
http://www.minutemanproject.com/newsmedia/news_release_2005apr07.html
MINUTEMAN PROJECT (MMP)
www.minutemanproject.com
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Fred Elbel, MMP Media Liaison
Telephone: 520-457-3008
email: [email protected]
www.MinuteManProject.com
Minuteman dismissed over bowl of cereal
Cleared of wrongdoing, but violated procedures
April 7, 2005 (Tombstone AZ)---A Minuteman Project (MMP) volunteer has been dismissed from further participating in the project after he shared a bowl of cereal with a suspected illegal alien he encountered along the Arizona-Mexico border. A project organizer said the volunteer had violated established MMP policy.
The volunteer encountered the suspect near a main highway while off duty from MMP patrolling. Believing the man to be in distress from exposure and lack of fluids and food, the volunteer gave him a bowl of cereal and milk. He then contacted the Border Patrol. The volunteer reportedly shook the suspects hand, help up a lettered T-Shirt to commemorate the event, and gave the man $20 just before the Border Patrol arrived and took the suspect into custody. An investigation of the incident by the Cochise County Sheriff's office cleared the volunteer of any wrongdoing.
But project organizers said they have a strictly enforced policy that no contact be made with suspects. Project volunteers are only to observe suspected aliens and then report those observations to the Border patrol. The project co-founder, Chris Simcox, said, "The volunteer's actions were admirable, justified and undeniably humane, but unfortunately they jeopardized our established procedures and overall purpose of passively monitoring the border. It's unfortunate, but we had to dismiss him from further participation."
The Minuteman Project is an effort by what organizers say will be an eventual more than one thousand volunteers from the 50 states throughout the month of April to patrol along a 23-mile section of the Arizona border with Mexico. Simcox said that powerful forces are out to malign and sabotage the project. He said, "Our adversaries will take even then most benign event and try to develop it into an international incident. We cannot allow any digression from our established policies and procedures."