Annual Mexican independence parade protested

http://www.statesman.com/metrostate/content/metro/stories/09/18parade.html
Austin's sixth annual Mexican Independence Day parade Saturday ended with a confrontation at the Capitol between the marchers and demonstrators protesting illegal immigration from Mexico.

Police and state troopers kept the roughly 100 protesters and 400 marchers apart, especially when some began shouting at each other, but there were no incidents or arrests.

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U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, who rode in the parade, told the marchers at the Capitol under waving Mexican, U.S. and Texas flags that he was proud of all Texans from Mexico.

"These Minutemen used to wear white sheets," he said, urging passage of the "Dream Act," bipartisan U.S. legislation to allow undocumented high school students to attend college or serve in the armed forces.
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http://www.statesman.com/metrostate/content/metro/stories/09/18minutemen.html
Ex-Minuteman leader sees danger in Texas patrol
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Based on the activities of some of the members he objected to, which he declined to specify, Buelter said he expected the Minuteman members to patrol somewhere in the Nueces Strip.

The Strip is territory covering hundreds of square miles and more than a dozen counties between the Nueces and Rio Grande rivers.

The Nueces Strip has historical significance to some Minuteman members, Buelter said, because it was the territory in which numerous gun battles took place between American ranchers and Mexican intruders after the Civil War. Historians have said those sometimes bloody battles included audacious lawbreaking on both sides. Some Minuteman members, Buelter said, interpret the history as a historic stand by Americans against Mexican incursion.

"There are some people, I think, who are trying to re-create Texas history," he said.(/snip)