As April came to an end, so did the Minuteman Project — almost 900 civilian volunteers protecting just 23 miles of our border. With the project close, the press will try to determine whether it was a success or not. Don’t let them fool you — it was a resounding success.

If you look at the Minuteman Project about page, you will see three documented objectives:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.

The project succeeded beyond all hope on all three objectives.

The press coverage has been immense and reaction from government officials, either for or against, has been heated and high-profile. Our officials cannot claim ignorance as to American’s feelings about the state of our porous borders. Or about the blind eye that our government turns to those who facilitate the illegal (and all-too-often fatal) crossing of our borders:

The Minuteman Project will continue to expand its efforts to focus on interior enforcement, including businesses that hire illegal aliens and sponsor illegal alien hiring halls.

People are dying to get into this country, literally. They should want to, but they shouldn’t have to.

It is time that the government formulates and enforces a cogent immigration policy. One that allows workers to enter legally and safely, rather than hiking through deserts or packed in trucks risking death for the opportunity to work. It is time that the government screens those that enter our country, allowing our economy to grow without the risk of terrorists hiding among the hordes that stream across daily. It is time that workers who pay taxes and social security get benefit from those — legal, documented workers should get government services.

I do not understand the reluctance to attack this problem — there should be bipartisan support for immigration reform. Stop terrorism, stop exploitation and stop innocents from dying. It’s a win-win.