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Armed vigilantes apprehend hundreds of asylum seekers near Mexican border
Members of a heavily-armed group of vigilantes calling themselves the United Constitutional Patriots intercepted and apprehended hundreds of asylum seekers this week, despite having no authority to do so.
One of the men filmed while others took the asylum seekers, including children, into custody on Tuesday night. For the past two months, the group has camped out in the desert near the town of Sunland Park, on the border between New Mexico and the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) official told ThinkProgress that while the agency welcomes community assistance, it does not condone vigilante groups taking border enforcement into their own hands.
Were just Americans, Benvie said. Were veterans, were ex-law enforcement, were people who care about the over-strained Border Patrol. As to why the group was so heavily armed, Benvie contended that there was danger that went along with their patrols, since they were supposedly interfering with cartel-run trafficking.
https://thinkprogress.org/vigilante-group-asylum-seekers-mexico-367557475411/
These groups have been at the border for MONTHS yet CBP welcomes community assistance, it does not condone vigilante groups taking border enforcement into their own hands.
Scary shit that this is allowed to transpire with impunity...
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)They ought to be issued an order to disperse and within an acceptable amount of time; they are required to leave or face eviction and/or arrest.
Im certain I do not need to point out the double standard here...
BigmanPigman
(51,603 posts)Do not give them an inch or they will take a mile.
Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)But that won't happen.
Scary shit, I agree.
Damn.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)Ex law enforcement are assholes too crazy or crooked to keep even in today's environment. Apprehending hundreds means false imprisonments. And if a single immigrant was accepted by CBP there should be HUGE ACLU lawsuits.
Basement Beat
(659 posts)Seriously.
Let see a group of "patriots" that's people of color try this anywhere (not that I would condone this either). I guarantee the government just won't look the other way.
nolabear
(41,982 posts)If they take people against their will its kidnapping!
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)snort
(2,334 posts)brush
(53,782 posts)Luciferous
(6,080 posts)Liberalhammer
(576 posts)Broadcasts them. Youtube is an accomplis.
keithbvadu2
(36,816 posts)Murder, robbery, child molesting border patriots have some history
It really attracted a lot of people that had some pretty extreme issues,
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/minuteman-movement-border-crisis-simcox/
During the past four years, the Minuteman groups that defined conservative immigration policy during the mid-to-late-2000s have mostly self-destructedsometimes spectacularly so. Founding Minuteman leaders are in prison, facing criminal charges, dead, or sidelined. It really attracted a lot of people that had some pretty extreme issues, says Juanita Molina, executive director of the Border Action Network, an advocacy group that provides aid to migrants in the desert. We saw the movement implode on itself mostly because of that. An analysis by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors right-wing extremist groups, found that the number of Minuteman groups in the Southwest had declined from 310 to 38 between 2010 and 2012.