HOUSTON -The organizer of a volunteer group that has taken up the cause of combatting illegal immigration brought his recruiting efforts to Houston on Sunday, comparing the group's border surveillance to that of a neighborhood watch. Minuteman Civil Defense Corp. President Chris Simcox, who trained about 30 volunteers in Houston late Sunday, said he's looking for people willing to set up a lawn chair, use a pair of binoculars and program the Border Patrol's number into their cell phones. "We are the nation's largest neighborhood watch program," Simcox said outside a Houston airport hangar where his members privately trained new volunteers. "We sit in lawn chairs, and we observe. And when we spot illegal activity, we report that to the proper authorities." The group is planning to patrol Texas' border with Mexico in October, repeating an action it took along Arizona's border in April. Simcox said his volunteers have no contact with illegal border crossers. "We do nothing but act as eyes and support for law enforcement and Border Patrol," he said.