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(85,977 posts)
Sun Nov 4, 2018, 07:54 AM Nov 2018

This should be fine

Garance Franke-Ruta @thegarance 15m15 minutes ago
Things that won't end well. // U.S. militia groups head to border, stirred by Trump’s call to arms https://t.co/RjDMo5KGfG

FALFURRIAS, Tex. — Gun-carrying civilian groups and border vigilantes have heard a call to arms in President Trump’s warnings about threats to American security posed by caravans of Central American migrants moving through Mexico. They’re 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 president’s 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 can’t put a number on it,” McGauley said. “My phone’s been ringing nonstop for the last seven days. You got other militias, and husbands and wives, people coming from Oregon, Indiana. We’ve 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 OP
What could possibly go wrong? (n/t) PJMcK Nov 2018 #1
Disgusting and dangerous gademocrat7 Nov 2018 #2
it's not just the orange evil buffoon Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2018 #7
This won't end badly at all.😮 dewsgirl Nov 2018 #3
Timely exposure of these types? empedocles Nov 2018 #4
I think this is exactly what Mattis is worried about. Vinca Nov 2018 #5
Maybe this will keep them away from the polls. BaileyBill Nov 2018 #6
It's also reported that they steal gov't equipment 2naSalit Nov 2018 #8

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,254 posts)
7. it's not just the orange evil buffoon
Sun Nov 4, 2018, 09:20 AM
Nov 2018

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.

2naSalit

(86,330 posts)
8. It's also reported that they steal gov't equipment
Sun Nov 4, 2018, 11:07 AM
Nov 2018

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.

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