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Central American Gang Threatens Volunteer US Border Patrol
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MS-13 street gang runs a major smuggling operation on the US-Mexico
border Members of a violent Central American street gang have been
sent to the southwestern U.S. state of Arizona to attack Minuteman
Project volunteers, as they begin a month-long campaign to help patrol
the southern U.S. border with Mexico.

James Gilchrist, a Minuteman organizer frustrated by the U.S.
government's failure to control illegal immigration, tells the
Washington Times newspaper that leaders of Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13
have sent gang members to confront his group in Arizona.

More than 1,000 civilian volunteers are expected to converge on the
city of Tombstone Friday to begin a 30-day border patrol. Likewise,
Hispanics from the National Alliance for Human Rights are going to
Tombstone to protest the Minuteman Project. Last year, 500,000 illegal
aliens were caught in Arizona.

MS-13 runs a major smuggling operation on the U.S.-Mexico border,
running drugs, weapons and undocumented aliens from Central and South
America into the United States.


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