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Borderless Vigilantism: The Nativist US Militias Entering Mexico
- theGnuMe 4y agoThese guys will get themselves killed or worse kill someone. Here's hoping the Mexican Army arrests them before that happens.
- CapricornNoble 4y agoShouldn't Mexico's security forces prioritize using their limited man-hours to defeat the narco-terrorists instead?
- throwawayffffas 4y agoHow exactly are Mexico's security forces supposed to distinguish between the "narco-terrorists" and them? Crossing the border armed in camo suits is definitely illegal in both countries.
- CapricornNoble 4y agoPattern of life analysis + SIGINT.
- JoeyBananas 4y agoI bet these militia guys wish that the Mexican army was around to arrest them in Mexico. But they aren't there and neither is US border patrol. That's the problem.
- subjectsigma 4y agoEvery time a Bellingcat article is posted I’m not sure if I’m impressed or frightened
- poulpy123 4y agoBeside the going through the border thing, why does the USA government accepts unregulated militias ?
- krapp 4y agoThe Second Amendment.
- poulpy123 4y agoI'm not overly familiar with US constitution but isn't it just about the right of carrying guns ? being a militia is quite different
- krapp 4y agoThe amendment specifically refers to the right to keep and bear arms in the context of maintaining state militias, as opposed to a national standing army (which didn't exist at the time.) Even though SCOTUS has interpreted the amendment more broadly than that, and we have a standing army and national guard, we have to allow militias to exist and we have to let them be armed. Ironically, the second amendment also requires that militias be "well regulated," but because we have to use the original 18th century meaning of terms, that doesn't mean regulated by the state, but simply armed and ready, so essentially just self-regulated.
- kderbyma 4y agoAt least somebody is so my something about the blatant smuggling issues.