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The immigration crisis is reviving the Minuteman Project
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Aug 1, 2014
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The immigration crisis is reviving the Minuteman Project
Congressional inaction on immigration and more kids entering the country has border tensions rising. In the midst of this, the Minuteman Project is re-emerging.
A volunteer from the Minuteman Project stands near an American flag placed in the barbed wire fence which divides the U.S./Mexican border April 4, 2005 near Noco, Sonora Mexico. More than a thousand volunteers from the Minuteman Project are expected to fan out across a 23 mile stretch of the Arizona border to search for Illegal aliens who are making the trek into the United States from Mexico during April.
A volunteer from the Minuteman Project stands near an American flag placed in the barbed wire fence which divides the U.S./Mexican border April 4, 2005 near Noco, Sonora Mexico.
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Congressional inaction on immigration and more kids entering the country has border tensions rising. In the midst of this, the Minuteman Project is re-emerging.

A Congressional lack of action on immigration, plus the increasing waves of unaccompanied children entering the country, has ramped up tensions along the border. And a name we haven't from in a while is looking for a resurgence: The Minuteman Project.

Founded in 2005, the group of vigilantes stationed volunteers along the border to stop illegal migration. Its notoriety has waned since then, but this month it and other similar groups are launching campaigns to increase their ranks and deploy members to "stop an invasion."

The Minuteman Project's founder and president Jim Gilchrist joins Take Two to talk about Operation Normandy, where he hopes to recruit 3,500 volunteers to patrol the border on May 1, 2015.