Posted on 04/17/2019 3:49:01 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Trump's army: More than 300 asylum seekers surrender to armed militia of 'New Mexico residents, veterans and ex-cops', after crossing the US border
Hundreds of asylum seekers surrendered to an armed militia of New Mexico citizens last night, after trying to cross the U.S. border.
A group of 300 men, women and children gave themselves up to the 'United Constitutional Patriots', a gang of vigilantes who claim to be made up of veterans and former police officers, who then handed them over to border officials.
Video recorded by one of the militia, Jim Benvie, who has been camping out on the New Mexico-Chihuahua border for two months, shows the asylum seekers walking on a dirt road having crossed through a fence gap in Sundland Park, New Mexico.
The emergence of the vigilante group comes amid a boom in asylum seekers aiming to make their way into the U.S. through New Mexico, and the El Paso sector.
In 2018, Border Patrol stopped 162,000 people in the Rio Grande Valley.
None of the eight other Border Patrol sectors on the Southern border have experienced anywhere near those figures, as the graphic above indicates.
However, El Paso, where the 300 asylum seekers were filmed, has seen a significant spike in the past year, as other corridors in the U.S. are explored.
In October and November of 2018,as the average number of apprehensions grew, El Paso's share doubled.
The video, which was streamed live on Facebook, shows the asylum seekers giving themselves up to the militia, intending to turn themselves over to Border Patrol.
'I literally walked out and I looked, and all I saw was hundreds of people coming at us,' said Benvie.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
New Mexico ping!!!
Assylum my hairy white butt.
We’ll let them pitch tents on Cher’s lawn
“More than 300 asylum seekers surrender”
Call them what they are: Welfare seekers.
“’I literally walked out and I looked, and all I saw was hundreds of people coming at us,’ said Benvie.”
God bless these dudes because if it were me, I would probably open fire..
Doing the work illegal immigrants won’t do
Guessin’ they’ll stay in the New one and not back in the old one? Mexico that is.
Uh, also, why are the calling it “Trump’s army”? Oh, daily mail uk crap.
BTTT
FINALLY! if our federal government won’t defend our country, then Americans will just have to step up and “do it ourselves!”
(meaning that the primary purpose of our having established USA in the first place... has been subverted...by those enemies of our republic that have set up the entire system of incentives for invaders ... while preventing any effective border defense)
Smile of the week.
Seriously though I applaud folks for protecting what’s theirs from invaders.
That is what we are and I are loving it!
Build the damned wall already. And man it with live ammo guards. These are invaders. PERIOD.
Take them back across the border and have them pay another coyote to sneak them across again.
That would help stem the tide...
No - not Minutemen - it was “..a gang of vigilantes...”.
I guess I missed the part where they hanged all of the illegals.
These folks were doing what a citizen can do in most(?) states I imagine - perform a citizen’s arrest.
Yep. These are illegal invaders. Nothing more.
The best thing they got going for them is that Bernie Goetz is not guarding the border.
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