Author Patrick Strickland discusses what it will take to resist far right militias and protect our communities.
in states like Texas and Arizona. In this interview, Strickland discusses what is inspiring these groups to grow, what kind of threat they present, and what it takes to push back on them and regain control of our communities.takes readers into the story of “border militias,” these radical right-wing groups of armed men positioning themselves as vigilante border defenders.
The history of these groups is decades-long. You could trace it back to the 1880s where state-sanctioned vigilante groups patrolled for Chinese immigrants on the southern border. The modern history traces back to 1977 and the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Border Watch patrols organized by David Duke and Louis Beam, among others. They also said that they weren’t detaining people and that they were simply passing information to Border Patrol.
That’s an interesting question because there is a very solid connection between some of these people and fairly important people in the Republican Party. Tim Foley of Arizona Border Recon had gone and spoke in D.C. at an event with Roger Stone, Trump’s confidant, and former congressman Steve King. He’s also gotten cozy with former Maricopa County Sheriff and anti-immigrant activist Joe Arpaio.
So, what are the kinds of things that some of these border communities are doing to push these militia groups out?
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