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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently announced that the 950
volunteers expected to take part next month in an Arizona border vigil against
undocumented immigration will be monitored to ensure none of the aliens are
abused. The organization will have
lawyers on standby ready to file civil cases against the volunteers.
The volunteers will be posted at 200-yard intervals a mile inside the
border to observe undocumented aliens coming into the U.S. and report them to
the U.S. Border Patrol, but is not to confront them.
The effort to voluntarily patrol the border is being referred to as the
Minuteman Project, in which volunteers plan fan out across 23 miles of the San
Pedro Valley to watch the border and report any illegal activity to federal
agents -- an exercise some law enforcement authorities and others fear could
lead to vigilante violence. Many volunteers were recruited over the Internet and
some plan to be armed.
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