What has been coined as the Minutemen Project was established in 2004. This project called for citizens who wanted to help the Border Patrol, to watch the border and radio them if they spotted any aliens trying to enter the United States. Even though they do not have the authority to arrest anyone, they can let Border Security know and then go back to watching the border. Even though this is for a good cause, there are some people who protest against this project. On October 4, 2006, there was a Minuteman speaker who was promoting the program at Columbia University. It was during this speech that, “approximately forty students and demonstrators allegedly stormed the stage...with a yellow banner toward Stewart [the Minuteman speaker] and supposedly
