SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. - The U.S. Border Patrol has begun a new community-based program called "Operation Be Alert," involving a series of highway billboards [in southern Arizona] calling on citizens to report alien and drug smugglers...

The billboards direct citizens to contact Border Patrol field offices about suspicious activity using the toll-free telephone number, 1-877/USBP HELP (872-7435), which also will be placed on all Border Patrol vehicles...

...Border Patrol officials said they did not time the project to coincide with this weekend's "Minuteman Project"...

Emphasis added. Whether that's believable or not is left as an exercise. Could this be a sideways endorsement of the MMP by the Border Patrol?