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The "Minuteman Project" emerges, and recruits civilians to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border.

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The "Minutemen" take their name from a militia group during the American Revolutionary War. Their project focuses on training community members to police the border, similar to how civilians were conscripted to fight in the American Revolution. As such, the implication is that border patrol security is a "patriotic revolutionary act."