Minutemen in Clash in NYC

U.S. immigration activists clashed at the site of the World Trade Center on Wednesday when an anti-illegal immigration group called for secure borders to avoid a repeat of the September 11 attacks and counterprotesters yelled “racists go home.”

Supporters of the Minuteman Project, which patrols the U.S.-Mexican border for undocumented immigrants, and immigrant rights activists, who showed up at the Minuteman event, became involved in a heated argument.

Jim Gilchrist and Jerome Corsi, authors of “Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America’s Borders,” were whisked away when some immigrant rights supporters broke through a police barrier and scuffled with Minutemen supporters.

Corsi, who also wrote a book critical of Sen. John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign, accused President Bush of leaving U.S. borders wide open. Click here.

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