There are over 7.000 volunteers in the Minutemen organization. and I am sure. like any other group of 7.000 people. you could find a bad apple or two. Yet. at the same time overall. their help has been productive and good. In fact. the Border Patrol itself in a CRS study indicates how helpful they have been. and their involvement has reduced the number of apprehensions of people coming over. That is because their folks are watching the border. What my amendment does is simply says that the U.S. Government cannot tip off the Mexican officials as to where these folks are located. Plain and simple. nothing fancy about it. I am sure the Border Patrol will say. oh. no. we are not doing that. and yet one of the Web pages of the Secretary of Mexico had the information very explicit. and we just do not believe that is a good practice. So what we wanted to do is confirm Congress position in an amendment. Mr.
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