From the OP link 'bout mid way down: "In another video posted Wednesday, Benvie filmed himself stopping a group of four adults and three children and said “border patrol” to them as he approached, before calling for another member of his group to join."
I spent two weekends with Jim Gilchrist on the border in Arizona back in 2005. We sat in beach armchairs armed with binoculars, night vision scopes, radios and cell phones to call the Border Patrol when we saw drug smugglers or illegal aliens crossing the border. The Minutemen were mostly military veterans, some active duty military or reservist or Guardsman, former cops, FBI, firemen and EMT's. Not being stupid you packed a sidearm or a rifle because you were on the border where there really is no law. It's like the 1800's in the wild wild west with banditos all around you. The cartels are more scared of American citizens armed with guns than they are of the Border Patrol or the U.S. military. Except maybe with Texas Rangers who have a tradition of shooting more Mexicans than any other law enforcement agency in America. The only thing that scares Mexicans more than armed American citizens or the Texas Rangers are Comanches. Comanches would kill Mexicans just because it was fun to do.
I understand our Constitution and claim to be a federalist. I can't be wrong because I actually understand the federal doctrine.
we have a naturalization clause not an immigration clause; get legal to Constitutional law, right wingers. don't practice the abomination of hypocrisy and claim you are not really like that, afterward.
Actual citizens are losing money due to property crime in our free States. Why do you care about the federal border?
lol. Not by Individuals of the People. They are Only enumerated and declared Necessary for the security of our free States not the border.
Too bad that militia had a kook for their leader. People that have that much time on their hands are suspect anyway.
Don't grab guns, grab gun lovers and Regulate them Well! We have a Second Amendment and should have no security problems in our free States.
I participated in that one weekend, mostly wanted to see what it was about.. since I live on the border already anyway. It was a bunch of old folks sitting in chairs with binoculars and walkie talkies to maintain a line of communications with the Border Patrol. I heard a bunch going across near my post.. the Border Patrol caught 11 of them... I was a HERO for that weekend.. BTW, we didn't flash guns, only long guns were allowed, and nobody flashed those around anyway.. if they even had them.
Upgrading Ellis Island is more humane and cost effective; we should not have a crisis on our southern border.
Unfortunately the Democrats deep sixed any funding for facilities like that in the last budget.. I'd love for them to set a huge facility hereabouts... 5 square miles of a facility here in unrelenting desert would hardly be noticed. European settlement here started with convict soldiers.. it was so dangerous for leave the fort that they just did their time.
You can't mess with the National Park Service. Put them on moored rusting hulks of ships to process them. Shuttle them on the captain's gig.