Border Patrol told to stand down in Arizona - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - May 13, 2005

(Hat Tip: Steve Z., in a submission to End Times News.)

You read that right: the supervisors at the Naco, AZ office of the Border Patrol have evidently told their agents that they do not want to report any apprrehension statistics that would lend any credence to the claims by the MInuteman Project that the efforts of the 850 latter-day Minutemen to patrol that 23-mile stretch of border achieved any degree of success.

But Congressman Tom Tancredo already knows, and so do all the rest of us.

Nor are the Minutemen stopping there. What they did for Arizona, they want to do for Texas--along the entire length of the Rio Grande that separates Texas from Mexico. As one who got his medical degree in Houston, Texas, I say that it's about time. I can't tell you how many cases that my fellow interns and externs followed from time to time, in which the phrase "illegal alien" applied to the patients. But I can tell you about a newborn boy with hereditary spherocytosis, who turned out to be an "anchor boy." His mother came across that very river illegally in the company of a young man who later abandoned her, and she gave birth to the boy in this country. That made him a citizen, though she was not. Unfortunately, it's in the Constitution:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

Something wrong there--and something wrong with the President's policies. The job of Chris Simcox, the head Minuteman, and Tom Tancredo in Congress, is to save the President from his own inconsistency.