This article from the San Diego Union Tribune (warning – the UT is very conservative)
A Tijuana man who last weekend said he was shot shortly after crossing the border illegally into the United States is sticking to his story, despite some reports that he may have been shot in Mexico.
Carlos Alfonso Estrada Martinez, 38, was one of two Mexican citizens shot in separate incidents during the early hours of Saturday in the border region between Tecate and Campo.
In statements he made to officials, Estrada had said he was about 200 yards inside the U.S. when he was hit about 1 a.m. A second man who was shot about an hour later said he was assaulted just south of the border fence in Mexico.
Yesterday, Estrada was recuperating from a gunshot wound to his left buttock at his Tijuana apartment.
He said he was among a group of six people crossing into the United States and had just made it past the border fence. He said they were walking north when he saw a laser dot tracing up and down the front of his body.
Quotes from the Minute Men
Jim Chase, the Oceanside resident who organized the three-week border watch, said none of his people have fired any weapons. But he added that while he turns away people he considers extremists, he has been running into people conducting their own patrols who are not with his group.
“It doesn’t scare me, but it is scary from the standpoint of these are people who have not gone through me to pledge to be nonracist and nonviolent,” Chase said earlier this week.
An Oath. Good thinking Jim.
Great title …
It was the part of the article that stuck with me the most – that they already had a slang term for the Minute Men.
Pretty much had to happen sooner rather than later… there are a LOT of muy loco gringos down around the border with John Wayne or Sly Stallone fantasies of one type or another and one of them was bound to take a shot sooner or later.
The saving thing about this is that these are the kinds of guys who never get around to learning that guns aren’t magic and there’s more to using them than just waving them in the general direction of the bad guy and jerking that little dingus at the bottom. They’re as likely to hit each other as anyone else. Thank all the Gods there might not be that whichever yahoo it was only hit the poor guy in the butt…traumatic and painful but he’ll recover.
In the meantime the situation’s gotten realer and maybe some of the powers that be will realize this is gonna be a HUGE frickin’ problem if they don’t figure out how to do something about it.