Jim Gilchrist's Minuteman Project, an organization that concerns itself with the
protection and sanctity of the U.S. border, will be given access to public
facilities at Compton Community College in California for a town hall meeting
under a lawsuit settlement that is being worked out now.

Lawyer Michael Sands of the Pro Family Law Center told WND that an agreement with
the school should be final shortly.

The lawsuit had been filed when Compton officials refused the Minuteman Project
permission to use any facilities on campus for a town hall meeting about illegal
immigration, border security and other issues, citing a rule against allowing
buildings to be used by "special interest or advocacy groups."

Gilchrist, the project founder, has told WND his group's members are worried over
incidents such as an incursion earlier this year in Arizona, where U.S. National
Guard troops actually retreated in the face of oncoming – and armed – attackers
from south of the border.

His group works to publicize such concerns, and develop support for solutions.

But documents obtained by the organization showed the school already had opened
up its facilities to a "Farrakan Event," a "Multi-cultural Youth Peace
Summit/Registration Drive" and "The Black Student Union and Muhammad's Mosque
Peacemakers."

"Once you open up a school to one special interest group, you have to provide
equal access," Sands told WND at the time. "They (school officials) could be
putting forth some sort of agenda. They have to open up their facilities to all
other groups who properly apply for permission."

The request had been rejected by Jamillah Moore, interim superintendent of
Compton Community College, and the lawsuit alleged the school denied the
Minuteman Project equal access to the use of facilities based on the content of
the speech intended to be engaged in by the Minuteman Project.

The school has offered to pay the Minuteman Project $9,000 in fees and damages
and will allow the group's use of campus facilities with the main requirement
information about counter-demonstrators who could be expected, in order to
prepare security, officials said.

Sands said he understands the school's need for information that could help it
prepare security.

"I don't think that's burdensome on my client, to basically provide that
information to them," he told WND.

He said the school also previously had demanded a $14,000 security fee from the
organization, a fee not charged to others using the facilities, so that now has
been waived

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