![]() ![]() ![]() But they have since expanded their rotations to three border counties, and plan to deploy even more members this month in case the Biden administration lifts a pandemic rule, Title 42, so that migrants may once again claim asylum and enter the U.S. The militia initially faced some resistance from state troopers and local lawmakers. “The state National Guard’s willingness to work with and alongside a virulently white-supremacist group that built its reputation through protesting Black Lives Matter and the removal of a Confederate statue is particularly alarming,” the latest complaint said. ![]() In two complaints this year, most recently last month, the ACLU of Texas called on the Justice Department to investigate. The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas maintains that Patriots for America is a racist group that has been patrolling without adequate training - detaining, questioning and intimidating migrants, who often assume they are law enforcement. Based in north Texas, they’ve been patrolling in monthly weeklong rotations, consolidating support among law enforcement in south Texas. Patriots for America is a conservative Christian militia trying to stop human trafficking and drug cartels on the border. “So they’re smuggling these kids?” Hall said. The girls were headed to join their grandparents in Los Angeles. Barrantes said the girl was Honduran, and that she and her 12-year-old sister had traveled to the border without adults, then joined the rest of the migrants at a smuggler’s house before crossing the river. As militia members distributed water and snacks, the Nicaraguan woman, Jania Barrantes, 40, tried to explain what had happened. ![]()
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