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Garance Franke-Ruta @thegarance 15m15 minutes agoThings that won't end well. // U.S. militia groups head to border, stirred by Trumps call to arms https://t.co/RjDMo5KGfG
FALFURRIAS, Tex. Gun-carrying civilian groups and border vigilantes have heard a call to arms in President Trumps warnings about threats to American security posed by caravans of Central American migrants moving through Mexico. Theyre packing coolers and tents, oiling rifles and tuning up aerial drones, with plans to form caravans of their own and trail American troops to the border...
McGauley and others have been roused by the presidents call to restore order and defend the country against what Trump has called an invasion, as thousands of Central American migrants advance slowly through southern Mexico toward the U.S. border. Trump has insisted that unknown Middle Easterners, very tough fighters, and large numbers of violent criminals are traveling among the women, children and families heading north on foot.
The Texas Minutemen, according to McGauley, have 100 volunteers en route to the Rio Grande who want to help stop the migrants, with more likely on the way.
I cant put a number on it, McGauley said. My phones been ringing nonstop for the last seven days. You got other militias, and husbands and wives, people coming from Oregon, Indiana. Weve even got two from Canada.
Asked whether his group planned to deploy with weapons, McGauley laughed. This is Texas, man, he said.
read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-militia-groups-head-to-border-stirred-by-trumps-call-to-arms/2018/11/03/ff96826c-decf-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html?utm_term=.c08296629579
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This should be fine (Original Post)
bigtree
Nov 2018
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PJMcK
(21,998 posts)1. What could possibly go wrong? (n/t)
gademocrat7
(10,644 posts)2. Disgusting and dangerous
The evil orange buffoon is inciting violence.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,254 posts)7. it's not just the orange evil buffoon
Don't let Fox, hate radio, and the entire radicalizing Republican Party slither under your radar; they are responsible for "ginning up" this irrational fear, hatred, and response.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)3. This won't end badly at all.😮
empedocles
(15,751 posts)4. Timely exposure of these types?
Vinca
(50,237 posts)5. I think this is exactly what Mattis is worried about.
BaileyBill
(171 posts)6. Maybe this will keep them away from the polls.
2naSalit
(86,330 posts)8. It's also reported that they steal gov't equipment
so maybe they can be rounded up and taken out of circulation. A possible good thing that might come of this since there won't be very many refugees arriving like they say. In a report on NPR this morning stated that a few thousand of the migrants have applied for asylum in Mexico, they have been traveling in crappy weather and cold night temps so many are getting illnesses related to exposure to the elements so they are deciding to stay in Mexico.