Objectives

Primary Objective: Secure the borders of the United States

Article VI of the U.S. Constitution states:
“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all Executive and Judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath, or Affirmation, to support this Constitution

As provided by section 2 of the act of May 13, 1884, the following text was adopted as the official oath and is recorded in 5 U.S.C. 3331:

“I, Loyal Citizen of the Republic, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”

It is evident that many of our political leaders, both in our nations’ capitol and in halls of Nebraska government, have shamefully ignored their solemn oath to protect and defend the Constitution, to protect its citizens and to defend its legal borders.

Article IV, section 4 of the U.S. Constitution states:
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion…”

11 million uninvited, non-U.S. citizens crossing a legally recognized border into this country constitutes an invasion of enormous proportion.

Volunteer American citizens can best serve to help secure the land borders of this nation. The task of securing our two ocean coasts is significantly more complex and best left to the U.S. Coast Guard and Homeland Security at this time. With respect to our land frontiers, both our northern and southern borders are vast and dangerously porous. However, due to limited resources it is necessary that our citizen efforts be focused on those areas where unauthorized incursions have been most severe. This clearly points to our southern border. A common sense application of political triage therefore dictates that we focus our attention on the southern border as it presents the greatest threat.

Two important points need to be recognized with respect to this tactical decision. First, our primary focus on the southern frontier in no way minimizes the threat posed by an unsecured northern border. We strongly urge all citizens and members of the MCDC who reside in those states along and near our northern boundary to maintain the same high level of vigilance to protect our nation’s northern flank. Second, if the situation were reversed and massive incursions were taking place at our northern border, the primary focus of the Minutemen and all thinking citizens would shift to that northern border. Our focus and efforts are based exclusively upon the locus of the threat; it is our southern border in particular that is now hemorrhaging from a massive illegal breach. We bare no ill will to our southern neighbor. We simply demand, as citizens of a sovereign nation, that our laws and boundaries be respected by all of our neighbors.

Secondary Objective:  NO Amnesty for law breakers

Those who violate the laws of the United States must be dealt with appropriately.

The issue of what constitutes appropriate penalties for violation of our national immigration laws is a matter for our lawmakers to debate, but one reality is crystal clear: to simply ignore the fact that our laws have been violated is a prescription for national demise.

Every elected and appointed government official - whether federal, state or local – who has sworn the above or a similar oath, and who advocates amnesty in the face of unlawful activities, is in violation of their solemn oath and should be removed from office. We Hold These Truths to be Self Evident.

Amnesty begets further illegal behavior

• it rewards those who have chosen to break our laws
• it sends a message to others that it is acceptable to break our laws
• it tells our children that it’s OK to break ‘inconvenient’ laws
• it confuses law enforcement by promulgating ‘selective enforcement’
• it is a U.S. government-endorsed slap-in-the-face to legal immigrants

Every native-born American citizen in the United States today, including every member of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, is the descendant of immigrants in the recent or not too distant past. We are unquestionably and proudly a nation of immigrants, and we will continue to be such. It is imperative, however, that we do so in an orderly and legal fashion.