Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders [Hardcover]

Jim Gilchrist (Author), Jerome R. Corsi (Author), Congressman Tom Tancredo (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 25, 2006

The issue of securing America's borders has taken on new importance since 9/11. Few organizations have responded to the challenge like The Minuteman Project. The Project is not a call to arms, but a call to voices seeking a peaceful and respectable resolution to the chaotic neglect of this vital issue by members of U.S. local, state and federal governments charged with applying U.S. immigration law. It is not just a call to bring national awareness to the shambles that is U.S. immigration law enforcement but a reminder to Americans that our nation was founded as one governed by the "rule of law," not by the whims of mobs of illegals who endlessly stream across our borders, overcrowding schools, hospitals -- and jails. "Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders" is sure to be one of this year's most controversial books.

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Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders is a first-hand account from the frontlines, and what it says will shock you. Jim Gilchrist teams up with Jerome Corsi, the co-author of Unfit for Command—the book that derailed John Kerry's presidential campaign—to describe in vivid detail how the nation's southern border has disintegrated into a Wild West of human trafficking, drug smuggling, and violent gangs.

But the threat posed by out-of-control illegal immigration extends beyond the border states to the whole republic, warn Gilchrist and Corsi. Readers of this disturbing and timely book will learn how:

- Mexico encourages the mass emigration of millions of impoverished peasants, and why the Mexican government will stop at nothing to keep the border open;

- The Catholic Church uses its power and influence to subvert immigration laws, and why Church leaders are speaking out in favor of amnesty;

- American taxpayers are forced to pay the staggering economic and cultural price tag of illegal immigration, and why our government wants to keep the true costs hidden from the public.

With anti-American protestors taking to the streets to demand citizenship for all illegals, and with the President of the United States himself endorsing open borders, it has never been more critical for American citizens to understand the massive social, economic and security problems caused by illegal immigration. Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders describes those problems with a refreshing combination of facts and straight talk.

Like their Revolutionary War predecessors who defended America against a hostile foreign power, today's Minutemen have risen up to answer their nation's call against another invasion. Minutemen is their story, as well as an urgent call to arms to all of their countrymen.

About the Author

Jim Gilchrist, a Marine veteran and winner of the Purple Heart, is the founder of the civilian border patrol group known as the Minuteman Project. Jerome Corsi, Ph.D, co-authored the NY Times #1 bestseller Unfit For Command.The book's foreword will be written by Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO.)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 375 pages
• Publisher: World Ahead Publishing; 1 edition (July 25, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977898415
• ISBN-13: 978-0977898411
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #939,948 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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73 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good overview of a cataclysmic problem, July 12, 2006

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Flo (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders (Hardcover)

Having been chased out of a small town in the Midwest due to an influx of illegal aliens hired by local businesses obsessed with cheap labor, I take the illegal immigration issue very seriously. Being sick to death of "press one for English" I also respect what the Minuteman Project has done to publicize this issue and their demands that the government do something meaningful to stop it. I found MINUTEMEN: The Battle to Secure America's Borders to be an excellent overview of the severe economic, social and cultural problems unlimited third-world immigration is causing. When the first world meets the third world, it's not the first world that's uplifted - it's the third world that drags everyone else down to their level, and that's what happening in this country. Hooray for Jim Gilchrist and Jerome Corsi for stating so clearly what our so-called "leaders" can't figure out - that we need to impose control on our borders, now!

59 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read and Wake Up!, July 28, 2006

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Exel Harris (Nashville, Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders (Hardcover)

These two are true American Patriots. If you are not up on the problem with immigration, illegal and legal, you need to read this book otherwise you are going to wake up one day and wonder what happened.

Big business and the politicians in their pockets are about to take away the way of life we have built for ourselves. It's all about cheap labor, cheap products and the bottom line.

People need to pay particular attention to what is going on with the Security and Prosperity Partnership and the North American Union, this book talks about these hidden agendas which will end in the merger of the United States with Mexico and Cananda. These authors are bringing these programs out of the shadows. Another good read on this topic is "Fighting Immigration Anarchy" by Daniel Sheehy.

41 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding reading on such an important topic, July 31, 2006

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Christopher Czernel (Holland, Mi) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders (Hardcover)

This book proves Minutemen are not vigilantes, but are honest patriots trying to wake America up to the huge issues we are facing with our porus borders and illegal immigration. A MUST read for anyone wanting the true story of the failure of our immigration system. America was made great by LEGAL immigration with assimilation!