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| New Mexico militia detains migrants at gunpoint until Border Patrol arrives: report | |
| 2019-04-20 | |
| [FoxNews] An armed right-wing militia group operating along the U.S.-Mexico border posted several videos to social media this week, including one in which they held about 200 asylum-seeking migrants at gunpoint near Sunland Park, N.M., until U.S. Border Patrol agents arrived, according to a report. The militia group, which calls itself the United Constitutional Patriots, said it is determined to monitor the border until President Trump fulfills his campaign promise of a border wall or until Congress enacts stronger legislation to make it more difficult for migrants to request asylum, Jim Benvie, a spokesman, told The New York Times in a phone interview. “It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone,” the governor of New Mexico, Michelle Lujan Grisham, said in a statement to The New York Times, adding that it is “completely unacceptable” that migrants be “menaced or threatened” upon entering the U.S.
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| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #9 BTW, southern NM is red country. You want to arrest the militia members? The jury isn't going to help you. Dear Donald, Santa Fe declared itself a sanctuary city. Busing is shorter to the state capital than San Fran, LA et al. Easy half day drive. |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2019-04-20 18:42 |
| #8 THAT is a real campaign ad. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-04-20 16:51 |
| #7 Pretty obviously a repeated head injury disability |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-04-20 16:50 |
| #6 The main problem is the state has given it's forces too many special entitlements! I salute these people preventing crime, their main problem for the dems is they are highlighting state failure. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-04-20 14:05 |
| #5 Crumbs, I must have read Peel's principles of Policing all wrong... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-04-20 14:03 |
| #4 “It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone,” the governor of New Mexico, Michelle Lujan Grisham, said in a statement to The New York Times You need to re-read your law then. The same one that allows the militia to detain and turn over to the authorities people committing crimes are the same ones that protect your security force and security guards. Yes, they are citizens. A security guard has the right to conduct a citizens arrest on an intruder and turn them over to the law agencies. Just like the militia. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2019-04-20 10:59 |
| #3 So, if some guy starts fondling your GF or wife in a public place, you "have no authority" to intervene? Really? So if someone is raping the US border you have no authority to intervene? Really? Really??? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-04-20 10:41 |
| #2 “It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone,” Just shoot them then? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-04-20 10:39 |
| #1 Michelle Lujan Grisham Same governor who signed off on unconstitutional legislation that stripped citizens of New Mexico of their electoral votes. Tell me about the law again? BTW, its the militia repealing invaders. |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2019-04-20 06:33 |