Cities fear violence as militia groups threaten to shut down border crossings [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

Cities fear violence as militia groups threaten to shut down border crossings
Travis Gettys
15 Sep 2014

Border militias are threatening to block international ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border later this week to protest the jailing of a Marine reservist on Mexican weapons charges, and authorities fear the protests could spark violence.

Law enforcement officials and city leaders in the region have met with officials from U.S. Customs and Border Protection to discuss the planned demonstration.

Organizers said they would block indefinitely bridges and other ports of entry beginning Saturday to protest illegal crossings by undocumented migrants and the jailing in Mexico of a former U.S. Marine, Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, on weapons charges.

The protest was launched by Stasyi Barth, a 41-year-old married mother of three from Lake Elsinore, California, who said she has been angry for years about illegal immigration but decided to take action after the Marine veteran’s arrest “kind of pushed it over the edge.”

She connected on Facebook with Rob Chupp (pictured above), an Indiana truck driver active in the border militia movement, to organize the “Shut Down All Ports” protest.

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