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Seattle
Post-Intelligencer -- August 20, 2003 ABP plans to use UAVs to find illegals, usual suspects complain ...The group, American Border Patrol, has bought and souped up three large model airplanes with cameras and night vision equipment and will begin patrolling in two weeks. It has also set up radio sensors along a stretch of the Texas-Arizona border <sic> to help guide the drones. -- Immigrant advocates [such as BAN] say the citizen patrols are vigilante mobs motivated by xenophobia and racism.  |
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Sierra Vista
(Arizona) Herald Review -- August 13, 2003 More on Meddling Mexican Government, BAN grousing Bisbee -- A group of illegal immigrants reportedly detained by members of the Tombstone-based Civil Homeland Defense has stirred Mexican officials and a pro-immigrant group [the pro-invasion Border Action Network] in the United States to demand an investigation of the Aug. 1 incident. |
| Associated Press
-- August 13, 2003 Pro-invasion group intensifies efforts against civilian patrols on U.S. border Immigrants [read: illegal aliens of unknown origin] crossing the Mexican border into America are often pursued by authorities and chased by civilians. Now immigrant advocacy groups are hunting for them, too. -- Volunteers for the [pro-invasion] Border Action Network are searching for any undocumented migrants who have been harassed by armed civilian groups patrolling the border. |
| Associated Press -- Arizona Daily Star Update [Very short-lived link] -- August 12, 2003 Invasion cheerleaders intensify fight against civilian patrols on border An advocacy group [Border Action Network] wants to file a lawsuit on behalf of migrants who say they were victimized by armed civilian groups patrolling the border, and is seeking victims willing to serve as plaintiffs. --- Glenn Spencer, president of American Border Patrol, ...says his group operates lawfully and does not interfere with migrants. -- Still, he said he's concerned about groups that plan to file lawsuits. "Things are getting a little hairy," he said. "They're heightening feelings on both sides of the border. They are trying to rabble-rouse." |
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Daily -- August 10, 2003 Feds harassing citizen border groups? ...One organization, the Border Action Network, or BAN, confirmed in a statement that it is launching "a Mexico-wide media blitz seeking victims of vigilante violence." -- BAN is planning twin media events Aug. 12 in Mexico and the U.S. to announce its "bi-national campaign to stop vigilantes".. in the southern Arizona region. -- "If these ethnic activists think Americans are just going to roll over and let their borders be trampled, they're wrong," said [Dan] Stein. |
| Arizona Daily Star Border Edition -- July 31, 2003 Border question: Helping or smuggling? People offering humanitarian aid to illegal immigrants say their work may be hampered by the decision to bring border policy foes to trial on criminal charges. -- "We're nervous about what it means," said Jennifer Allen, director of the Border Action Network, a group that advocates for illegal immigrants [criminals]. "It makes people think twice before offering assistance when another human being is in need. That's the implication of targeting people and prosecuting people for offering assistance." |
| Arizona
Republic / Tucson Citizen -- June 13, 2003 Ranch Rescue no longer patrols border, BAN reconquistas skeptical The Arizona branch of Ranch Rescue, a civilian watchdog group often criticized for its dealings with undocumented immigrants, is splitting from the national group and will no longer patrol the border. -- Jen Allen, co-director of the border watchdog group Border Action Network, is skeptical of Arizona Ranch Rescue's new incarnation. -- In May, her group launched a program to connect immigrants who have been assaulted with lawyers willing to file civil suits on their behalf. |
| Tucson
Citizen -- June 6, 2003 Agent kills alleged rock-throwing illegal, Jennifer Allen rants and raves ...News of the killing irked Jen Allen, director of the Border Action Network, a border watchdog group in Tucson. -- "This has happened too many times," Allen said. "Agents can't continue to fire on people and kill people and shoot people with impunity." -- "So many agents are poorly trained, they don't last long, (it's a) high turnover rate." -- Agents killing migrants for throwing rocks is the same excuse "over and over again," Allen said. [See reader submitted photos of a similar attack by illegals] |
| Arizona
Daily Star Editorial -- June 1, 2003 Life-saving beacons ...Jennifer Allen, of the Tucson group, says on the one hand the Border Patrol places itself on a pedestal for rescuing illegal immigrants but on the other hand it is responsible for endangering their lives by implementing U.S. policies that contribute to the fatalities by driving immigrants deeper into more dangerous terrain. -- Allen acknowledges there is some good in the rescue beacons because they may save lives. [Glenn] Spencer says the same thing. But neither wants the Border Patrol to brag about what it's doing. |
| Arizona
Daily Star Border Edition -- May 28, 2003 More on desert 'beacon towers' ...Jennifer Allen, director of the Tucson-based Border Action Network, said that on the surface, the lifesaving beacons sound good, but they represent an escalation of the Border Patrol's militarization of the border. -- Illegal-immigration opponent Glenn Spencer of the Sierra Vista-based American Border Patrol said while he's certainly not opposed to saving lives, he believes the rescue tower plan is an acknowledgment of the ineffectiveness of current border enforcement strategy. |
| Tucson
Citizen -- May 8, 2003 Invasion advocates aim to hassle Americans Illegal immigrants sneaking into the United States are sometimes assaulted and often are too scared to press charges. ---- A news conference in Nogales, Son., this morning kicks off the Border Action Network's search for "victims of vigilante violence." --- "These people (the Network) are obviously trying to pin something on us. They're trying to stop us, the American Border Patrol, from informing the people of the United States of what's going on on the border," Glenn Spencer said. [Related article] |
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Arizona
Daily Star Border Edition -- May 8, 2003 Fifth columnists upset, team up with Mexican politicos Saying U.S. authorities have failed to take action, a border advocacy group will launch a media campaign in Mexico Thursday aimed at finding the victims of vigilante violence on the border. -- The Border Action Network, working with Mexico's Party of the Democratic Revolution, will begin placing posters and billboards in Nogales, Sonora... SEE THIS FEATURE ITEM |
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El Paso
Times -- April 28, 2003 Militia group sees migrants as 'threat' The leader of a border militia was one of the featured panelists at an immigration debate recently at Arizona State University West. -- Chris Simcox, organizer of the Civil Homeland Defense Corps in Tombstone, Ariz., defended his group's attempts to stop undocumented immigrants from entering the United States at the Arizona-Mexico border. --- Other panelists included Emilia Bañuelos, an immigration lawyer in Phoenix, and Jennifer Allen, co-director of Border Action Network, which opposes citizen border patrols.  |
| Arizona
Daily Star -- April 11, 2003 Multi-agency group set to deter invasion, open border aficionados gripe Arizona law enforcement agencies are promising to crack down this summer on smugglers who lead border crossers to their deaths and commit other crimes. --And-- Jennifer Allen, director of the Border Action Network ... applauded the new law enforcement effort. But Allen said illegal border crossers are dying because a buildup of border enforcement near urban areas is forcing them into the desert. [Mexico encourages illegal immigration, and they've done it for years.] |
| Tucson
Citizen -- April 9, 2003 Arizona A.G. to decide on probe demanded by open-border zealots Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard will decide in coming days whether to investigate citizen patrol groups along the border, said his spokeswoman, after he met with immigrant-rights activists yesterday in Tucson. -- Representatives of the Tucson-based Border Action Network joined Cochise County Supervisor Paul Newman and Douglas City Council member Ramon Jordan in Tucson yesterday. -- "Everything that we do is within the law," said David Cheney, Ranch Rescue's northern Arizona coordinator. |
| Letters
(2) to the Arizona Attorney General -- April 8, 2003 Re: Request for investigation by the Border Alliance Network ...The issue of illegal immigration had a direct impact on my life. I would look forward to sharing my story with the State Legislature and Congress. My focus is education and health care reform as it pertains to the current crisis here in Arizona. -- My activities have no resemblance to the kinds of activities that have been alleged in the report by the Border Action Network... |
| Letter
to the Arizona Attorney General -- April 8, 2003 Re: Request for investigation by the Border Alliance Network I join with Mr. Richard Humphries (see letter below) in offering myself as a subject for investigation because of my affiliation with the American Border Patrol organization of Sierra Vista, Arizona. My crime, if there is one, relates to my belief in the rule of law upon which this government was founded... |
| Arizona
Daily Star -- April 7, 2003 Open-borders crowd wants action on 'vigilantes' The heat is rising along Arizona's border with Mexico, and not just because it's April. -- A Tucson-based border watchdog group will urge Attorney General Terry Goddard to crack down on vigilante groups it claims are operating outside the law. -- In December, the network [along with CongressMechista Grijalva] called on Goddard's predecessor to investigate the possible ties of vigilante and militia groups to national racist and anti-immigrant [read: illegal alien] movements. |
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Border Patrol American Border Patrol Crew Accosted Naco, Arizona - (4/5/03 -- ABP) - An attempt to record a group of open border advocates' rally on the border west of Naco was met with hostility on Saturday afternoon. High winds hampered ABP's efforts to send live video from the scene of the demonstration. |
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April 5,
2003 ABP Board Member Invites Investigation Dear [Arizona] Attorney General Terry Goddard: I think an investigation of these border militia groups down here in Cochise County is an excellent idea. After all, through our freshman Congressman Raul Grijalva, we know that these groups are made up of cockroaches and are really 'hate' groups. (Whatever that might mean.) What an embarrassment to the state of Arizona 'Raul' has turned out to be! (His given name at birth was Ralph, not Raul.) Just not 'Mexican' enough for him, I guess. |
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-- Tucson -- April 5, 2003 Pro-invasion fanatics go after American Border Patrol, others "I think it's all the more important that we address these issues now, especially in a time of war because our countries need to be safe," says the director of the Border Action Network, Jennifer Allen. -- Allen is taking aim at groups like Ranch Rescue which came to Southern Arizona from Texas last year. -- Another group she's aiming at is Glenn Spencer's American Border Patrol which came here from California. -- He told News 13, he believes "that Mexico is in fact sponsoring the invasion of the United States with hostile intent." |
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Tucson Citizen -- April 4, 2003 Illegal alien helpers, cheerleaders carping in Arizona A Tucson immigrant-rights group says it has gathered nearly 2,000 signatures petitioning for a state investigation of citizen border patrols in southern Arizona. -- The Tucson-based Border Alliance Network plans to deliver the petitions to Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard when members meet with him Tuesday, said Jennifer Allen, the group's director. |
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Daily Star -- April 4, 2003 More on shenanigans by 'open the floodgates' fanatics ...The appeal to the attorney general is necessary because local law enforcement agencies have allowed "outsiders dressed in military fatigues and hunting immigrants [read: foreign criminal invaders on private property] to operate with impunity. These groups claim members among the Border Patrol and other law enforcement officials, and that's just wrong," Jennifer Allen, director of the Border Alliance Network, said Thursday. |
| Arizona
Daily Star Update [Very
short-lived link] -- April
3, 2003 Open border fanatics fling more loose allegations, bald faced lies A Tucson-based border advocacy group has gathered nearly 2,000 signatures from southern Arizona residents urging a state investigation of the activities of border militia and vigilante groups. -- "These groups claim members among the Border Patrol and other law enforcement officials and that's just wrong," said Jennifer Allen, director of the Border Alliance Network [formerly known as SWARM]. -- "These vigilante groups are operating outside the law and we hope the attorney general will agree to an immediate investigation..." |
| Tucson
Citizen -- March 11, 2003 Defender of illegal aliens finds congressional hearing 'upsetting' Sells, AZ -- Controlling drug trafficking at the U.S.-Mexico border may require more law enforcement resources and exceptions to environmental laws, according to testimony and comments at a congressional hearing here yesterday. ---- Jen Allen, director of the Tucson-based Border Action Network, called the meeting "upsetting." Most of her testimony focused on alleged human rights violations by the U.S. Border Patrol. -- Allen criticized those running the hearing for ignoring the environmental impact of border enforcement... [illegals are wrecking the place]. |
| Tucson
Citizen -- March 3, 2003 Usual suspects bewail better border enforcement ...Failure to rein in American militia groups has led to the assaults on immigrants [a bald faced lie, of course], asserted Jennifer Allen, director of the watchdog group Border Action. -- "The violence is definitely escalating," she said "We need to look at how our policies and practices are contributing to that." -- Unless the new Department of Homeland Security plans to address that, nothing will change, she said. -- "We're kind of watching it," she said of the changeover to the new agency. "Not a lot of hope is being placed on that." |
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February 4, 2003
Associated Press
Civilians patrolling U.S.-Mexican border
...Migrants are scared. They already risk dying from dehydration and heat exhaustion trying to cross the border in this harsh landscape. And violence against migrants has escalated in Arizona since September 11, says the Tucson-based Border Action Network, a nonprofit human rights group. More...
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January 27, 2003
In These Times Magazine
Armed & Dangerous -- Vigilantes terrorize migrants crossing the border (Suspected Dees' lackeys bemoan citizen patrols)
...Operating out of a secret headquarters somewhere near the town of Hereford, ABP uses high-tech surveillance to monitor people crossing the border illegally and uplinks video to the Internet of Roger Barnett and others detaining migrants. "We look at Spencer as a high-tech version of David Duke, using his technology to further his racism and scapegoating," says Jennifer Allen, co-director of BAN. [This article also calls the anti-American separatist gang known as MEChA a "Chicano-rights group".] More...
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Monday, December 23, 2002
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
EDITORIAL: Run for the border -- Private citizens perform service in rounding up illegal border crossers
...Jennifer Allen, co-director of the Tucson-based Border Action Network adds that the illegal aliens "have civil rights and human rights that take precedence over defending the country." More...
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Napolitano
seeks talks on border vigilantes
By Hernán Rozemberg
The Arizona Republic -- Dec. 19, 2002
Arizona's incoming governor hopes to defuse tensions over vigilantism at the border by inviting all sides to talk it out.
Border Action Network, a Tucson-based human rights group, released a report Wednesday calling newly formed civilian militias law-breaking puppets of national White-supremacist organizations, and it demanded state and federal investigations.
Leaders of the militias countered that they're patrolling the border because the federal government has jeopardized national security by failing to stop illegal immigration. More...
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Arizona
called ripe for vigilantes
The criticized groups say they resent not only the allegations,
but also the 'vigilante' label itself, saying it incorrectly
and unfairly characterizes them as lawbreakers.
HERNÃN ROZEMBERG
The Arizona Republic
Dec. 18, 2002
Arizona has become fertile ground for outside vigilantes who use national security as an excuse to push their racist and anti-immigrant agenda and break numerous state laws, a human-rights group warns in a report to be released today.
"There's more than enough evidence, besides a moral imperative, to stop these groups," said Jennifer Allen, co-director of the Border Action Network. "People have already been killed, and it's only going to get worse."
The Tucson-based group will release the report at a news conference in Phoenix and deliver it to Gov.-elect Janet Napolitano, who takes office Jan. 6. The group hopes she will ask for state and federal investigations into the civilian organizations that have formed in the past two years. The report comes in response to the increasing number of border residents trying to personally stop illegal immigration, citing a lack of federal action and increased national security concerns since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. More...
