Robert Casimiro This is Me

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1. 1. www.sfc-hongkong.org

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   Published on: 11/10/2007   Last Visited: 11/10/2007

   ... Massachusetts resident Bob Casimiro, one of some 1,600 volunteers taking part in this month's Minuteman Project in Arizona , says the illegal alien problem is hardly isolated to the southwestern U.S. border states . In fact, he notes, "Even in my town of Weymouth it's becoming more and more of a problem, and we know that they're getting up to Massachusetts by coming across the [Mexican] border. So I thought it necessary to come down here where the source is and be involved with this -- take some direct action." Casimiro has been involved in the immigration reform movement in his home state for nearly four years, and he currently serves as executive director of the Massachusetts Coalition for Immigration Reform. He says even his New England state has not been spared the effects of unlawful immigration. For instance, Casimiro says the authorities arrested a group of illegal aliens in a town called New Ipswich, New Hampshire , about six months ago. "Of course, New Hampshire has a border with Canada ," the New Englander points out, "but where did these illegal aliens come from? They were from Ecuador . So it's amazing that it's all coming from the southern border." Committed to advocating immigration reform, Casimiro says he intends to spend the entire month of April working the night shift in the Arizona desert with the Minuteman Project.

2. 2. www.sfc-hongkong.org

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   Published on: 11/10/2007   Last Visited: 11/10/2007

   ... Massachusetts resident Bob Casimiro, one of some 1,600 volunteers taking part in this month's Minuteman Project in Arizona , says the illegal alien problem is hardly isolated to the southwestern U.S. border states . In fact, he notes, "Even in my town of Weymouth it's becoming more and more of a problem, and we know that they're getting up to Massachusetts by coming across the [Mexican] border. So I thought it necessary to come down here where the source is and be involved with this -- take some direct action." Casimiro has been involved in the immigration reform movement in his home state for nearly four years, and he currently serves as executive director of the Massachusetts Coalition for Immigration Reform. He says even his New England state has not been spared the effects of unlawful immigration. For instance, Casimiro says the authorities arrested a group of illegal aliens in a town called New Ipswich, New Hampshire , about six months ago. "Of course, New Hampshire has a border with Canada ," the New Englander points out, "but where did these illegal aliens come from? They were from Ecuador . So it's amazing that it's all coming from the southern border." Committed to advocating immigration reform, Casimiro says he intends to spend the entire month of April working the night shift in the Arizona desert with the Minuteman Project.

3. 3. MIRA Coalition: Volunteers get cold reception in Vermont

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   Published on: 10/16/2005   Last Visited: 10/23/2005

   But the group's leader, Bob Casimiro of Weymouth, Mass., was not sure which way to send them.
   
   He pointed down the path toward a footbridge. The Minutemen started walking.
   
   "Stay within sight," he told them.
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   Casimiro spent three weeks in Naco, Ariz., earlier this year. He alerted authorities to one illegal immigrant, but he said he saw more important results than that.
   
   "What we saw in Arizona is our presence certainly has energized [border enforcement] down there, because they don't want to be embarrassed," he said.
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   A couple of miles from the road where Casimiro left them, three of the Minutemen were still walking, grand houses on their left, the lake on their right.
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   Those criticisms are unjustified, said Casimiro, executive director of the Massachusetts Coalition for Immigration Reform and leader of the 11 volunteers from Massachusetts, Delaware, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, and Connecticut.
   
   "It's very simple," he said. "I'm just trying to save my country."
   
   "National security is a big part of this," said Casimiro, 67, a retired design and project engineer. "As far as I'm concerned, I don't care where it is, I just want the border secured. We cannot survive as a nation with porous borders like that. It affects our economy, and it affects our culture. We're just rapidly becoming a nation other than the one I grew up in."
   
   Casimiro had heard that people in Derby Line had defended the border patrol. He pointed out that the Minutemen were observers and that their aim is to call border patrol whenever they see illegal border crossers.
   
   "Until the border is 100 percent secure, they're not doing a good job," Casimiro said.