The Meltdown of the Anti-Immigration Minuteman Militia

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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/minuteman-movement-border-crisis-simcox

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"During the past four years, the Minuteman groups that defined conservative immigration policy during the mid-to-late-2000s have mostly self-destructed—sometimes 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."

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[gordianot]

1. They just found out that they could not kill people and got bored.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

2. Misguided miscreants

Any way they're gone is all right by me.