The AP offers a standard article: "Citizen Border Guards Expand Patrols". The WaPo, a bit far from their home turf, offers the longer "In Ariz., 'Minutemen' Start Border Patrols". It includes a few quotes from MMP volunteers and Andy Adame of the Border Patrol reiterating the BP's objections to the MMP. The reporter appears to have tried and failed to spot some MMP volunteers behaving badly and only came away with one second-hand report of an exchange between a volunteer and a protester.

Yesterday's "A Roadblock, Not a Barrier for Migrants" from the L.A. Times is a bit more interesting. It reports on the efforts of Mexico's Grupo Beta on the Mexican side of the border:

..."Did anyone tell you about the Minutemen?" Enriquez, a member of Grupo Beta, Mexico's agency dedicated to protecting the health of migrants, asked the ragged group [of prospective border crossers]. "They are hunting for guys just like you. You couldn't get across now if you were sitting on George Bush's lap…. You cannot cross here — wait a month or choose another place."

Enriquez had been patrolling La Morita, a desolate border region, all morning. His mission was to intercept people heading north and warn them about the Minuteman Project, an effort by hundreds of American volunteers to track and report illegal immigrants coming into southeastern Arizona...

Agua Prieta [Mexico] Mayor David Figueroa called the activists "vigilantes" and their effort "an expression of racism." He said that Grupo Beta had added more agents to try to persuade people not to cross and show that the Mexican police presence has been beefed up to deter drug dealers from sneaking into the U.S...

"Tell [Mexican President] Vicente Fox to pay us better wages so we don't have to cross here," [a prospective crosser] said...

"I would like to have a wife and children and a stable job, but I don't know if that is possible in Mexico. I can't get any money here. I see this dream as not happening" [another prospective crosser said...]

The same reporter offers "Border Watchers Catch the Media". It includes quotes from MMP leader Jim Gilchrist, Douglas Mayor Ray Borane, and this:

"My read on it is that it has fizzled," said Tamar Jacoby, an immigration expert at the Manhattan Institute, a public policy think tank. "This project is not going to prove anything. All it will prove is that you can funnel immigration from one place to another."

Jacoby is a fervent supporter of President Bush's guest worker plan, and was booed when she appeared at CPAC in support of it. She also wrote editorials opposing Arizona's Prop. 200. There's background on her here, and you can hear a radio interview KFI's John & Ken conducted with her here.

A reporter from the AZ Daily Star was apparently in the same group as the L.A. Times reporter and offers "Minutemen find few migrants":

...Across the barbed-wire border in Arizona early Monday, excitement grips Minuteman Project volunteers when they observe a group of six people moving north. Dan Russell, 62, watches the group walking toward him. "They're getting closer," he says. "They could just be reporters." They are...