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Prop. 200 blocks U.S. citizens from voting
A stringent new voter identification law being put into effect in Arizona — designed to keep illegal immigrants from voting — will also prevent thousands of legitimate voters from casting ballots Tuesday, election officials say.
Gilchrist sings a different tune
Jim Gilchrist, founder of the modern-day Minutemen whom President Bush has labeled vigilantes, is suddenly watching his rhetoric now that he’s searching for votes…
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Minutemen supporters, critics clash
One group wants to end illegal immigration. The other rejects what it calls the armed uprising that the first group has begun.
Texas Minutemen fear $25,000 drug cartel bounty
On the first of October, if you wanted to contact the Texas Minutemen for a look at their El Paso maneuvers, you rang up Shannon McGauley. The Dallas private investigator and former bail bondsman was terse and mysterious with his directions, as if setting up a payoff. “Call me at 11 tomorrow, I’ll send someone to meet you.” Tomorrow came: “Drive to the Fort Hancock exit. They’ll be there.” A third phone call led in turn to another set of cryptic directions, this time a woman’s voice: “Take 20 toward El Paso, to where the wooden telephone poles turn to steel…
Arkansas lawmakers propose immigration “round-up”
Arkansas is poised to become only the third state to empower its own police to arrest illegal aliens, extending the reach of overburdened immigration agents but edging closer to the white-hot core of the immigration debate…
Minutemen patrols organize in Herndon
A local chapter of the Minuteman Project plans to begin surveillance of local day laborers and their employers in the coming days and report the findings to federal tax and immigration officials.

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