AZTLAN: Minuteman vigilante movement fizzles out

It is now clear that the Minuteman vigilante movement was more of a media driven circus than a serious effort by "redneck gringos" to stop the migration of Mexicans to Aztlan. Immigration from Mexico is today greater than before the Minuteman vigilante movement according to a recent study by the Pew Hispanic Center. Looking back to the much publicized launching of the movement in Tombstone, Arizona, it was probably prophetic that it was done so on "April Fools Day". More reporters showed up in Tombstone than vigilantes to what Susan Carroll of The Arizona Republic called, "a media-inflated stunt." There were no more than 150 vigilantes from across the USA that participated in the opening event.

The Minutemen turned out to be nothing more than obese lawn-chair vigilantes. The beer guzzling riff-raff from across America may have been scared by a statement purportedly made by a leader of the Mara Salvatruchas that they would be confronted by his organization. The vigilantes were informed that "The Mara Salvatruchas are known to cut the testicles of their enemies to feed them to their vicious dogs and to sever the heads off their opponents to play football soccer with them." This statement itself turned out to be an "April Fools Joke" but it sent shivers up the spine of many of the anti-Mexican vigilantes.