Con artist supporter outs himself as criminal

Long story short, one of those "militia" guys wandering in the desert and pretending to be something special, showed up in one of their pictures holding his weapon. Only problem is the guy is a convicted felon which means . . . no weapons allowed.

Using the rule of law, the FBI with assistance from local police, arrested the criminal and booked him for another stay in jail.

Also:


https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/armed-civilian-border-group-member-arrested-mexico-62529747

tRump and Kirstjen Nielsen called for volunteers to assist Border Patrol and I.C.E. at the border.


The Christian aid volunteers that comforted the asylum seekers were arrested.

Armed white nationalist militias are now coordinating with U.S. Border Patrol to 'detain' migrants


"The classic excuse that these militias and other gun fanatics use is the right to “defend” themselves. Fair enough. We all have a right to defend ourselves. But that right does not extend to acting as a private, unregulated police force, unanswerable to the public, that deliberately seeks out opportunities to threaten and arrest other people. When a group decides it can do that, and when the government looks away, we are crossing into very uncharted, very dangerous territory."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...with-the-U-S-Border-patrol-to-detain-migrants




Now tRump has a poster boy (grandfather ?).


NM Attorney General
NM Attorney General Verified Account
@ NewMexicoOAG

New Mexico

Attorney General Hector Balderas, State of New Mexico Office of the Attorney General


nmag.gov

This is a dangerous felon, who should not have weapons around children and families.

20 April 2019

Joseph Cervantes
Joseph Cervantes
@SenJoeCervantes

NM Attny Gen. must arrest, charge and prosecute
those kidnapping and pulling guns on immigrants
in my Senate District/ Sunland Park.

Scolding them won't cut it.


slate.com

7:54 AM - 20 Apr 2019



ACLU of New Mexico
@ ACLUNM

New Mexico

Because freedom can't protect itself.

aclu-nm.org


ACLU of New Mexico
@ACLUNM

Let's be clear: kidnapping migrants
at the border at gunpoint while
posing as border patrol officers
is against the law.

10:02 AM - 19 Apr 2019

20 April 2019

There have also been concerns that the men, who wear military-style clothes, could be misrepresenting themselves as border patrol agents. In another video, Benvie filmed himself stopping a group of four adults and three children and said “border patrol” as he approached, before calling for another member of his group to join him. In an apparent call to border patrol, one man said: “Hello, I’ve got seven over here.”

The UCP has previously presented itself as a group of “volunteers” aiding border patrol and supporting Trump. In recent years, there have been numerous reports of an increase in paramilitary groups and xenophobic activists surveilling the border, working with US agents and targeting undocumented people.

On Thursday, a Customs and Border Protection spokesperson said border patrol “welcomes assistance from the community” but “does not endorse private groups or organizations taking enforcement matters into their own hands”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ghtwing-militia-accused-of-detaining-migrants

And here's the glorious picture of this criminal:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/20/us/border-militia-arrests/index.html

Not only is the guy a criminal with multiple arrests who shouldn't have a weapon, he is also a terrorist.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/militia-leader-larry-hopkins-allegedly-told-fbi-they-were-training-to-assassinate-barack-obama-hillary-clinton/

Apparently these "patriots" are nothing more than criminals:


These are the same charges Larry Hopkins (see above) was charged with.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/member-armed-border-group-indicted-impersonation-63894856