The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Executive National Officers are conducting Talk Show interviews, calling upon citizens nationally to contact their Congressmen and Senators in order to demand that the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill contain the $3 Billion dollars previously designated for the construction of a physical border security fence.

The funding was promised when President Bush signed the Secure Fence Act in October 2006, and is the will of the majority of American citizens who want to live in this country, safe from the dangers that are invited into it through our porous borders.

“Nancy Pelosi has already met with the head of one terrorist state earlier this year and her unwillingness to prioritize the security of our nation’s borders is sending a message to the rest of the world’s terrorists that America is fertile ground for their dangerous designs,” says Chris Simcox, President and Founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. “We already know that Harry Reid favors amnesty over border security and we must remind him that like we did in June, we will muster the voters to send him a strong message of border security first.”

Minutemen volunteers spent an increased amount of time and energy during the last 12 months pressuring legislators on Capitol Hill to secure our borders and oppose any amnesty measures. Moreover, numerous print, radio and television advertisements encouraging citizens to contact their elected officials, and informing all 50 Republican and Democratic State Chairmen, that passage of amnesty legislation and lack of a physical border barrier will have a deleterious effect upon candidates during the 2008 Election Cycle efforts, resulting in over three million e-mail transmittals, faxes and telephone calls being placed by voters nationally.

Unlike the U.S. government, the Minutemen have already been implementing a plan for border security that is more than “virtual” and that includes an effective material barrier—by volunteering their time, energy and personal funds in order to build highly effective demonstration security fencing on private ranch land, expensed through private donations obtained from thousands of citizens nationally.

To educate the public and force federal government attention to the realities of border security, Minuteman volunteers have taken steps to build this fence along the border designed to utilize state of the art technology with the fiber optic mesh produced by FOMGuard, USA, also currently in use on U.S. military installations, the DMZ in Korea and the West Bank in Israel, and recently featured in National Geographic magazine.

Simcox concludes, “Our elected officials have disappointed us in the past and trust has been severely breached… so we will keep up the pressure until they act with material commitments made side-by-side with Minutemen volunteers—who are already securing our nation’s borders. We will not be bought off with more empty promises and Washington fantasies—we want a barrier fence, securing our border, now!”

What do you think? Should the U.S. government move faster to secure our borders? Or are there bigger issues we should be concerned with?