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The
Chicago Minuteman Project is not about racism or against
legal immigration: it is about protecting our borders
and enforcing our laws. We are interested in the
physical and economic well-being of all American
citizens regardless of race, color, or creed.
What is
illegal immigration doing to America?
Jobs that
once provided a living wage for citizens and legal
immigrants have become jobs that "Americans don't want"
because illegal aliens provide cheap labor for greedy,
unethical employers. Our education, health care,
and social services systems are buried under the weight
of providing for the flood of illegal aliens who use
these services at a disproportionately high rate
compared to the amount they contribute. Our
criminal justice systems are overflowing with cases of
crimes committed by illegal aliens, while cities with
so-called sanctuary policies (like Chicago) mandate a
lack of cooperation with federal law enforcement
agencies with regards to those who are in the country
illegally.
American
citizens and those who honor this country by immigrating
legally deserve better -- much better -- and the time
has come to stand up, speak out, and demand it from our
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Minuteman upholds the Constitution of the United
States of America, and reveres the American Creed
that unites us as one people, our Declaration of
Independence.
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Minuteman knows well America is a nation of
immigrants, and realization of our national promise
has always relied upon those who come to America
from other countries to participate fully, with
their children and descendants, as loyal and
law-abiding U.S. citizens.
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Minuteman believes that just as ethnicity, race,
religion and all such factors are incidental and do
not affect our God-given, constitutional equality as
American citizens, such factors are also irrelevant
in the debate over illegal immigration. There is no
tolerance among Minutemen for racism or bigotry - E
Pluribus Unum - Out of Many, One.
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Minuteman believes in a strong, safe and secure
America that begins with borders open only to those
who have a legal right to enter, and who have met
all the lawful criteria to cross into our territory
established by the sovereign American people.
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Minutemen vow to use every legal means at our
disposal to assist law enforcement authorities in
identifying and apprehending those who violate our
borders, whether they are illegally trafficking
people, weapons, arms, property, sexual slaves or
any other contraband.
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Minutemen vow to report to the proper authorities
any business entity which knowingly recruits,
facilitates or employs people who have entered
America illegally, or which cooperates in any
commercial activity which involves contraband
smuggling or marketing of persons, products or
materiel.
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Minutemen promise to raise our voices -- on cellular phones along
the borders of
America and in the
halls of Congress -- in the defense of the rule of
law. The American people are firm but fair, and we
share their great compassion for the many powerless
victims of cruel, illegal human trafficking and
labor exploitation. But we also support our
citizens' adamant rejection of the blatant disregard
for our laws and ordered liberty represented by the
U.S. government's failure to secure our borders,
enforce our nation's sovereignty and end the flood
of illegal trafficking into American territory.
I vow before God and my fellow Americans that these
principles guide my actions as a Minuteman. "Eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty..." And so I will
stand watch on America's borders and in her
sovereign interest until relieved from duty by my
fellow countrymen.
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