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The Minutemen and Anti-immigration Attitudes in California
2009
European Journal of American Studies
On April 1st 2005, Jim Gildchrist launched the Minutemen Project movement 1 , which was soon to ramify into dozens of small organizations and inspire thousands of volunteers who were ready to invest their time patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border in a largely vain attempt to stop illegal immigration to the United States. 2 This motley gung-ho crowd dressed in camouflage and carrying guns attracted worldwide attention and sarcastic comments from the media and President Bush himself, who publicly
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