... the Las Cruces chapter of the Minuteman Civil Defense Project, a border watch group that is gaining strength along the border as well as in other parts of the United States. ‘‘President Bush after 9/11 asked America to be vigilant says Wright, a lanky man in a cowboy hat. He says that the Minutemen...

... forbids us to kill.”2 If the openness of the face calls one both to compassion and to mur- derous rage, why compassion by some and rage by others? How can one look at the face and then proceed to act as the instrument of death? The rage is embodied in the formation of the Minutemen...

... portions of the border with Mexico.22 Heli- copters and unmanned aerial drones are part of the security package, along with a beefed-up CBP Border Patrol and supplemental National Guard. Then, too, there are the Minutemen militias, who carry out their own bor...

..., 2001, www.ranchrescue.com/thefacts.htm (site now discontinued). 7 For additional information, see essays on the minutemen in “The Last Frontier: The Con- temporary Configuration of the U.S.-Mexico Border,” SAQ 105.4 (Fall 2006), httpsaq .dukejournals.org/content/vol105/issue4...

... the Arizona Minutemen. The Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM/National Institute of Migra- tion) generated controversy in recent years by issuing pamphlets to poten- tial migrants that delineate the hazards of the border crossing. The guides contain emergency telephone numbers, the details of consular...