I got a kick out of this story about an ex-UCSD student running for Congress who staged a publicity stunt at the California border. As part of the either volunteer or vigilante (depending upon your point of view) Minutemen effort, he went to the border and managed to get a man crossing the border illegally to hold up a T-shirt. The shirt read:

Bryan Barton caught me crossing the border and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.

The story was widely carried, but here's the Herald Sun story.