IMMIGRATION -- THE MILITIAS ARE COMING: With immigration reforms held up by a bitterly divided Republican Party, residents in Arizona have crafted a novel alternative approach -- organize a militia! ABC News reports that some 500 militiamen "plan to patrol a 40-mile stretch of the southeast Arizona border" in what they refer to as the Minuteman Project. Immigration officials are deeply skeptical of the plan, fearing the mostly untrained "Minuteman" patrollers risk injuring undocumented immigrants as well as American border patrol agents. In a surefire understatement, ABC claims "at least some of the volunteers plan to arm themselves"; a previous investigation of volunteer border patrols in Arizona turned up AR-15 rifles and various other assault weapons.

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The Minuteman Project