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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMilitia Group Says Members Will Intercept Central American Caravan at U.S. Border
Militia groups and far-right activists are raising money and announcing plans to head to the Mexican border to help stop the caravan of Central Americans, echoing President Donald Trumps attacks on the migrants making their way toward the U.S.
Their presence has led to conflict in some cases. A militia member killed two people in 2009 during an invasion of what she thought was a drug house near the border in Arivaca, Arizona.
Residents in that same city have been posting signs in recent weeks warning that militia members are not welcome.
Marianna Trevino Wright, a South Texas resident who is director of the nonprofit National Butterfly Center, said she is more fearful of the militias than the caravan.
https://ktla.com/2018/10/26/milita-group-says-members-will-intercept-central-american-caravan-at-u-s-border/
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)will be unfortunate but plus side, may wake up the usually apathetic hispanic/latino voter
SunSeeker
(51,502 posts)These "militia" are really just violent right wing vigilantes -- the "violent mob" Trump accuses Dems of being.
groundloop
(11,513 posts)These right wing nut jobs just can't wait for an opportunity to play Rambo. It's scary as hell what might happen if they actually come across migrant families.
SunSeeker
(51,502 posts)Never mind that she and her family were US citizens, all these trigger happy nutjobs see is brown skin, so they shoot.
https://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2016/05/31/remembering-9-year-old-brisenia-flores-murdered-in-2009-by-anti-immigration-activists-in-arivaca-ignored-by-the-media
MineralMan
(146,248 posts)As history demonstrates, though, it's very, very unlikely that many will actually take a stand at the border. Militia folks are long on talk and short on actually showing up in a serious way.
Watch.