The Armed Civilians Patrolling the Mexican Border to Keep ISIS Out of America
26th November 2015
Being a British newspaper, the Independent Doesn’t Quite Approve, but it’s hard to argue with the facts.
Tim “Nailer” Foley was more than 5,000 miles away from Paris when Isis terrorists launched a series of coordinated attacks throughout the French capital, killing 130 people and injuring hundreds more. But Foley — a former construction foreman who now spends his days with a band of heavily armed civilians, voluntarily patrolling the some of the most remote and dangerous stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border — wasn’t surprised.
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“We have pictures from trail cameras that show Somalis and Middle Eastern guys with beards and everything else, but nobody is listening,” Foley told The Washington Post this week. “We’re going to have something like Paris had. It’s not a matter of if, but when.”
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The link between immigration and terrorism is still up for debate. Although the Paris terror attacks appear to have been coordinated by Isis operatives in the Middle East, all of the identified assailants are so far citizens of European Union countries.
And yet, officials say, the threat of an Isis operative slipping into the United States from Mexico is a real one: Last week, the FBI confirmed that five men from Pakistan and one from Afghanistan were captured near Arizona’s border with Mexico, according to ABC affiliate KNXV.
Do tell.
To join Arizona Border Recon, volunteers must fill out an application, pass a background check and abide by strict rules of engagement, Foley told The Washinton Post. “We want to make sure you’re not a sexual predator or prohibited possessor, and by doing this it shows the Border Patrol agents that we have a sense of professionalism and they don’t have to sit there and wonder, ‘Who are these guys?’” he said.
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“There’s that scene in ‘The Matrix,’ where Morpheus offers the blue and red pill,” he said. “I’ve taken the red pill, and I’ve woken up, and I can’t go back to sleep. I’ve seen the truth. How can I turn my back on it and go get another 9-to-5 job, pay my taxes and pretend it isn’t happening?”
Becoming a Democrite seems to work.