Campo Update and editorial: Thanksgiving 2006

Update and editorial: Thanksgiving 2006

On 11/23/06 I took the scenic route down the old
highway from Jacumba to Campo as I usually do. Just
as I did on 11/10/06, I stopped by the MCDC’s new
compound called “Camp Vigilance” to check it out. I
found it locked and deserted on both weekends and none
of their crew observed me or the border.
I rolled up to The Oaks at Campo about noon just as
Weasel and Shaggy were leaving, having finished their
night shift and heading home. I was grateful to
relieve them. Mad Max was on hand to give me a
briefing. Several locals and MMP affiliates brought us
Thanksgiving meals for with we were very grateful.
Thanksgiving night was very active. A large group
crossed and the Border Patrol sent three trucks up on
the power line road behind 138, 139 and 140.
Meanwhile a small group apparently got though by The
Oaks. Max heard them and we tracked their footprints
down the trail west of The Oaks until we lost them in
the brush. Max and I each sat watch in separate
locations on high ground just east of the PCT,
observing the culverts and low lands beyond. The
would-be crossers in Mexico taunted us all night,
hollering and banging the fence.
As we sat on the high ground the vision of the
Border Patrols working the power line roads was a
sight to behold. They were obvious herding a large
group of illegals. Suddenly, I was startled by a
vehicle coming up behind me. It was a large Border
Patrol van heading east at high speed, a sure sign
that a significant number had been captured. I
radioed Max and we met at The Oaks in time to watch
the BP vehicles leaving the area. They waved at us as
we gave them a standing ovation.
I resumed my patrols, alternating between using my
top mounted Go-Light to spotlight the area and my side
light to look for fresh tracks. Periodically Max
would bring Thanksgiving leftovers to my position.
I ended up at my favorite spot (and apparently the
smugglers too) at 139. About 0400 Max, while out on
patrol, brought me pumpkin pie. About fifteen minutes
after he left, someone from behind the fence hollered,
startling at me. At about 0445 I got out of the truck
to stretch and someone else hollered at me, this time
from America, in the area behind 139 where the BP had
been working only hours before. I called the Border
Patrol at Campo and reported it, stating that perhaps
there were still illegals in that area. BP was at my
position within 15 minutes and searched the area to no
avail. When he came back to my position I asked him
what had gone on earlier in the evening. He said they
had caught thirteen illegals, but the two young
coyotes they wanted weren’t with them. I thanked him
for the job he was doing and he returned the
compliment.
As aside, this has always been my experience at
Campo. Without exception the BP always thanks us for
being present. I always ask them if there is anything
we should do or not do and they always say to just
keep doing what we are doing. One officer even
commended me for being armed and said it was dangerous
not to have a weapon as close to the border as we
work. So much for the gun toting vigilante
accusations. The individual BP officers in the field
profess to like us there, and like us there armed.
They enjoy having responsible citizens providing them
with more eyes and ears.
About sun up I walked quietly over the white monument
panel at 139, where I have frequently noted illegals
brazenly coming and going. Through a peephole in the
fence I spied movement under a tarp on the ground.
Payback time. I banged on the fence loudly as they
had done repeatedly through the night. I abruptly
awakened three men who sprang up surprised from
beneath the tarp. I took a picture of one of them
though the hole in the fence and immediately had a
rock thrown at me.
Friday morning a White Bronco drove down the fence
line on the Mexican side from 140 to a hilltop just
west of The Oaks. I took pictures as five men, all
dressed in identical dark blue uniforms got out of the
vehicle several times and walked around toward the
fence. Then they left the area heading south.
Friday afternoon, while patrolling on my motorcycle,
I found a fresh hole under the fence between 139 and
140. It had been dug out from the American side. I
informed a BP agent who was on patrol and then we
plugged the leak.
Friday night I had another Minuteman Thanksgiving
meal, prepared by Ridgerunner. I ate it in the cab of
my truck while observing the 140 area with night
vision, also loaned to me by Ridgerunner. Gadget and
Radar visited me before a thick fog rolled in and
visibility deteriorated. Unable to see, I went back
down to The Oaks where Max and I slept in shifts.
The fog lifted and I resumed my patrol about 0230.
About dawn I went back to the monument panel at 139 to
see if those boys were under the tarp again. They
were there, but they were already awake and peering at
me thought the holes in the fence. I left Campo for
home Saturday morning about 1100.
Now comes the brief opinion piece
I have deployed with the now defunct Friends of the
Border Patrol once, the Border Search and Rescue one
time and in April of 2006 I tried to deploy with the
MCDC. The MCDC muster was in disarray and that is how
I ended up in Campo, where the men put me to work
directly. I am proud to claim affiliation with all of
the groups but especially the men and women who work
the Campo area. They are tireless patriots and
civilian observers, many of whom live on the border
24/7. They work closely with, cooperate with and are
welcomed by the BP. If MCDC actually has the money
and manpower it claims to have in the southern
California area why not organize and help the other
groups? Instead of a large, once a month MCDC dog and
pony show at “Camp Vigilance” which is deserted the
rest of the time, why not stagger the MCDC “musters”
and communicate with the Campo Minutemen and the MMP?
If we put our egos aside and our country first we
could effectively cover and observe the border from
Boundary Peak to Bell Valley! Can’t we all just get
along??
This concludes my report. I will submit this report
and corresponding pictures to the webmaster for
eventual inclusion at

http://www.campominutemen.com

C1
Campo Minuteman

An Illegal Alien Killed Tyler Lundin

My lovely living boy,
My hope, my happiness
My love, my life, my joy.

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas. (1544–1590)

Because of An Illegal Alien. The Lunden's Lovely, Living Boy,
is No Longer with Them.

Pictures w posted here:

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http://www.dailynews.com/antelopevalley/ci_4722382

Protesters decry illegal immigration
Man died after collision blamed on undocumented driver

BY CHARLES F. BOSTWICK, Staff Writer
Article Last Updated:11/25/2006 06:27:59 PM PST

PALMDALE - More than 50 people carrying American flags and signs that read "Stop illegal immigration" demonstrated Saturday at an intersection where a young Palmdale man was fatally injured in a crash blamed on an unlicensed, uninsured undocumented immigrant who tried to walk away after the collision.

The protesters said local government officials should do more to deter illegal immigration, including turning over to federal authorities undocumented immigrants who have been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and similar crimes rather than releasing them to await trial.

"If they release drunk illegal-alien drivers after they sober up, they're setting us up for more deaths of American citizens," said Frank Jorge, founder of the Antelope Valley Independent Minutemen, which organized Saturday's demonstration.

With songs such as Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" and the Eagles' "Lying Eyes" playing on loudspeakers, the demonstrators stood along 10th Street West at Avenue O, beside a memorial cross and candles for 20-year-old Tyler Lundin of Palmdale. Passing motorists honked and waved.

"It's been overwhelmingly positive," Jorge said of the response from passers-by. "I don't think I've seen anybody give us a thumbs-down or a middle finger.

Lundin died four days after an Oct.22 crash in which his pickup truck collided with a compact car that turned left in front of it. The car's two occupants tried to walk away after the crash, but they were caught and detained by several people who witnessed the crash, sheriff's deputies said.

Wilfredo Briswela, 22, of Rosamond, who prosecutors said is an unlicensed, uninsured, undocumented immigrant, has been charged with vehicular manslaughter, punishable by up to a year in jail, and felony hit-and-run, punishable by up to four years in prison. He's in jail in lieu of $100,000 bail awaiting trial.

Littlerock resident Susan Zaks stood beside Lundin's roadside memorial with a hand-lettered sign reading, "The cost of illegals."

She said she is not against immigrants - her father and his parents came to the United States from England, her mother's parents from Russia and her husband from Israel - but wants immigrants to comply with U.S. immigration laws.

"I want everyone coming in the front door, just like my father, my grandparents and my husband did," Zaks said.

By federal law, immigrants - legal or illegal - are deported after they serve their sentences for serious crimes including murder, robbery, child molestation and some thefts.

But Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said they do not routinely check the immigration status of people arrested for misdemeanors or cited for offenses such as driving without a license, though they routinely impound vehicles driven by people without licenses.

Jorge, a Mojave resident, said the Antelope Valley Independent Minutemen was founded to try other tactics not used by the nationally known Minuteman Project, whose members have staked out border crossings used by people entering the United States illegally.

The group's first demonstration was in September at east Palmdale's Four Points intersection, where they protested loitering by day laborers whom they presumed to be mostly, if not entirely, undocumented immigrants.

They also protested the September 2005 death of off-duty paramedic Michael Sprinkles, whose motorcycle was hit by a compact car driven by an undocumented immigrant who had been deported in 1999 for crimes committed in the United States and had a driver's license under one of his many assumed names.

The group's members have also appeared before the Lancaster and Palmdale city councils, and Jorge said he thinks their pressure is responsible for a Lancaster decision to reject Mexican matricular consular cards as identification for city business, and for Palmdale officials' consideration of requiring companies with city contracts to verify they are not employing people who are in the United States illegally.

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Campo Minutemen report: 11-14-06

Campo Minutemen report:
11-14-06

Men and women, tired to the bone, continue to stand watch in the Campo,
California area. Spreading thinly both East and West they stand ready to
report all the illegal actively they see. Hard working but never enough of
them. Not enough concerned citizens and precious little money to buy or
replace decent high tech visual equipment or even pay for Gasoline. The
Campo Minutemen are stretched thin. Max, with blood shot eyes roams the
wall, the back country and dirt roads day and night in "The Beast" formally
known as "Godzilla". Others like Rascal, set up in a position and stand
fast, alone but not lonely. Britt walks his high point providing news,
direction towards those approaching the wall, and a comforting radio voice
at "Oh Dark Thirty" on a long night. Gadget Dan cleans up trash removing all
the trail markers he can find, and repairs breaks in the wired holes under
the wall. Many others come and go spending whatever time they can.

For the most part drug smugglers seem to be crossing East and West of Campo
Minutemen. However, there is still a flow right through Campo Minutemen's
positions. Yesterday afternoon, for example, a truck and foot traffic was
seen near the Pacific Crest trail southern terminus, Mexican side. A little
while later Campo Minutemen installed culver wire, just East of Patriot
Point was found cut. Someone either cut it in preparation to cross or they
crossed undetected. In the last month or so many people have crossed into
the US and escaped into the American Ether via the Campo area. Campo
Minutemen have reported some but bye and large the spotters on the Mexican
side simply observe and the crossers wait for the Campo Minutemen to move or
they pick another dip in the terrain and slip over or under the wall and
head North to work, amnesty and a vote towards a Communist Government.

Most days are pretty quiet and then some days there is a rush of activity on
the South side of the Wall or a herd of different characters with in 15
minutes pouring in to the border area from the North moving up and down the
Wall zone. Very strange. You don't know who is whom, and what they are up
to.

In Campo, I have seen one, 2 man, static position, manned by what looks to be
US Army. A month, further East, I saw a 3 man position manned by US Army, one soldier with a
side arm. Since I have been on the border this month there is more Border
Patrol agents than I have ever seen and yet still hardly enough to do even a half
decent job. I am told that these extra Beeps arrived when I arrived. Huh? I assume coincidence.

People are still crossing. CMM is finding discarded cans of food, a hash
pipe a couple days ago, jackets, etc.and other indicators of people from the south passing
through us and heading North. A La Gloria canyon resident complained to me that
illegal aliens burglarized his home, again.

There are mixed feelings about the Election, but people still intend to work
the Campo area, as shown by the fact Ridge Runner was having a roof
installed on his trailer at 141, that will out last most house roofs.
Chezkstan brought in an RV and it sits at the Oaks. Others come and go.

You can really tell we are being watched from Mexico. I have been camped
with a trailer at 140. Every night I leave the porch light on as a beacon to
be seen in Mexico. My wife came down and turned the light off. Before dawn we had people
all up and down the Wall to our front. In Vehicles, on foot and horse back.
I said, "See, we need to leave the light on all night so the watchers can
see we are here.

On the light side, most of us showed up at the VFW for free food on Nov 10,
2006. USMC/Veteran's Day. Britt and I are both members. The food was good and price right lol! The 18th the VFW has their
Steak fry 3pm-6pm. We had group dinners at my trailer and Howard's trailer.
And you will never forget a "Vigilante Dog," prepared by Chezkstan with a
Mapp Gas torch.

Report From Kingfish

Campo is staring to look a little like a trailer park on the weekends with the number of campers and recreational vehicles.



Over the weekend, the number of attempted crossings increased as they usually do when amnesty looks imminent. Early Sunday Morning, Kingfish spotted a white pick up truck on the south side right about 141 with seven or eight individuals looking to cross. Had they done do, they would have crossed over right onto Chechstan. There were several border patrol agents on scene very quickly.



Later that same day, two older, males were scene on the south side. They road up on Quads and looked over the fence, using binoculars. Kingfish was alerted to their presence by Buddy. One even climbed a tree to get a better look.

Kingfish Speaks at Biola University

Kingfish traveled to Biola University as a Minuteman "Expert Witness." He spoke for an hour and answered questions. The students were very receptive and asked thoughtful questions on a wide range of aspects of illegal immigration, from Reconqusita to building the fence.

Pictures to be posted soon.