ACLU and Mexican Ganglords on the Same Side

The Minuteman Project, a citizens group tasked with assisting the border patrol along our porous southern border, has already made a difference. FoxNews is reporting that the group assisted in the arrest of 18 illegal aliens.

Participants helped federal agents make 18 arrests near Naco, authorities said Sunday. The volunteers were surveying the border to familiarize themselves with the area before starting their regular, monthlong patrols Monday.
“You observe them, report them and get out of the way,” said Mike McGarry, a spokesman for the project that will concentrate on 23 miles of the San Pedro Valley.

Naturally, as the "premier" civil rights organization in the United States, the ACLU is ecstatic with the Minuteman Project and their effort to protect the rights of all Americans. In fact, they are so interested in Minuteman and how it works, that they will follow the group on patrol.

"We will be there to make sure they're not abusing anybody's rights," the ACLU's Ray Ybarra told the paper.
He says a team of attorneys will be ready to file civil cases against project participants should any abuses occur.
A team of lawyers will be on hand to file civil cases against Minuteman participants if abuses occur, he said.

While the ACLU is barking at the heels of the Minutemen, Mexican ganglords are, at least, attacking the group from the front.

As WorldNetDaily reported this week, a leader of the violent, terror-connected Latin American gang Mara Salvatruchas, Ebner Anivel Rivera-Paz, has reportedly issued orders from federal prison to members of his international criminal organization to teach a lesson to the group of Americans taking border control into their own hands.

The Minuteman Project is literally surrounded. Assist in the Defense of our borders, a perfectly legitimate exercise, and they open themselves up to attack from the rear as well as from the front. It makes even less sense when you read their mission statement.

This call for volunteers is not a call to arms, but a call to voices seeking a peaceful and respectable resolve to the chaotic neglect by members of our local, state and federal governments charged with applying U.S. immigration law.
It is a call to peacefully assemble at the Arizona-Mexico border to bring national awareness to the decades-long careless disregard of effective U.S. immigration law enforcement. It is a reminder to Americans that our nation was founded as a nation governed by the "rule of law", not by the whims of mobs of ILLEGAL aliens who endlessly stream across U.S. borders.

In other words, they are just a group of folks exercising their rights as American citizens. So, is there some lesson that can be learned from the fact that the ACLU is on the same side as a Mexican gang lord in this matter?

UPDATE: Check out these photos, taken by the wife and I, of the north shore of Lake Superior over the weekend.