The FBI arrested a man allegedly connected with an armed militia group that has been detaining migrants in New Mexico, the state attorney general’s office said.
Online jail records suggest that Hopkins was arrested by the FBI on a warrant at around midday Saturday.
The governor said this week that"it should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone," and that her office and state police would be working with the state attorney general and local police to see what could be done. The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico raised the alarm about the arrests by the armed groupThe civil liberties group said in the letter that on Tuesday members of the group arrested nearly 300 people near Sunland Park, and the ACLU posted excerpts of the letter on its website with video that appeared to have been made by one of the militia members.
They've been posting videos almost daily of members in camouflage and armed with semi-automatic rifles holding asylum-seekers who have crossed the border until Border Patrol arrives to arrest them, Reuters reported.
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