The Southern Poverty Law Center has issued a report that says newspapers inflated the number of Minutemen who showed up to be vigilante border patrol agents in Arizona.
Chief among the inflators was the Sun Myung Moon owned Washington Times.
Meanwhile, ePluribus Media reports that $1.6 million dollars of the money that the Minuteman raised to build a fence on the border is missing.
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I live in Arizona so I get to see more media about the minutemen than others around the country might get to see.
It may be impossible to ever determine the true number of minutemen. I believe there are three groups of people who consider themselves minutemen. 1) Those who are actually patrolling the border, those who amass near the border but are seeking media attention and those who never go near the border but support the cause.
It is interesting to note that there have been some rifts between folks who call themselves minutement. Minutemen who support the 'patriotic' cause have come out against other factions who have racist undertones.
Meanwhile, ePluribus Media reports that $1.6 million dollars of the money that the Minuteman raised to build a fence on the border is missing.
No they don't. They report that the Minuteman project raised $1.6 million dollars. How much of that money is "missing" is debateable since the MCDC unfortunately doesn't make their accounting records open to the general public. Yes, this is a bad thing.
Secondly, the actual turnout is largely irrelevant. Their effect reducing the number of border crossings is documented. If fewer minutemen were involved, it only makes their results more dramatic not less.
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