Minutemen deterence working in Houston before they hit streets

Houston Chronical:

The Minutemen aren't scheduled to patrol the streets of Houston for another month, but already they're having an effect among day laborers.

A day labor organizational meeting scheduled for Saturday had to be closed to the media because the workers are afraid, organizers said.

The leaders also say they have noticed that fewer contractors are picking up workers from the corners where day laborers, most of them undocumented immigrants, gather, which they also attribute to fear of the Minutemen.

"They're very scared," Maria Jimenez, a leader of the Coalition Against Intolerance and for Respect, said of the workers.

Imagine what could be accomplished if ICE were permitted to do the same thing. I think the broken window theory used by Guliani in New York will also work against people who come to this country in violation of the law. If you believe in the rule of law, you should want immigration laws enforced.

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