Minuteman Movement Beginning in Odessa, Texas

Odessa:

"About 40 people gathered Thursday night to consider whether to create a West Texas chapter of the Arizona Minuteman Project.

'It's basically like a neighborhood watch,' organizer Shane Marler, of Odessa, said. 'The primary goal is to go to the border, take note of illegal activity and call the Border Patrol.'

Marler said the organization would be strictly non-confrontational and never make contact with illegal immigrants unless someone needs help."

The biggest problem, as noted in this and other articles, is that Texas has very little public land along the border (unlike Arizona), and such activity would require landowners' permission.