...Friends of the Border Patrol, organized by Andy Ramirez, 37, of Chino, begins its monitoring today with an estimated 130 volunteers, he said...

Jesse Diaz Jr., 41, of Ontario, is an organizer of La Tierra es de Todos, a coalition of groups formed in Riverside in May to oppose such Minuteman spin-off groups. Coalition members will caravan to the border Saturday for a rally in Calexico and to join an attempt to close the border at Tecate, to deny California retailers business from Mexican shoppers, Diaz said...

Diaz said opposition groups would go out at night looking for Minutemen border-watch groups in order to confront them with light and noise and video cameras and to disrupt their efforts at stealthy monitoring...