New Mexico militia's detaining migrants.

[Genivaria]

Again, in principle there's nothing wrong with maintaining vigilance along the border and reporting illegal immigrants you see crossing to BP. Hell, it's fine to be armed when you do it. The problem arises when you confront people. Observe and report should be the gameplan, leave actual confrontation to BP.

Even professional private security has no more legal authority to arrest someone than any other citizen does.
These 'militia' are acting outside the bounds of the law and need to be arrested.

[Havarland]

Ahh…The good ol' south.

[Thermodolia]

Good. We should arrest the rest of them

[Genivaria]

Are they preventing them from leaving completely or are they perfectly free to go back across the border?

Armed men telling you to stay where you are doesn't give any reasonable person the impression that they can walk away in any direction.

That begs another question, is there any report of these hooligans actually opening fire on anyone?

[Kowani]

Why do you think he has a gun?

Because people own guns for the express purpose of shooting people.

When he’s going around detaining people with a semi-automatic, it’s safe to say that the gun’s not for hunting deer.

[Scomagia]

Again, in principle there's nothing wrong with maintaining vigilance along the border and reporting illegal immigrants you see crossing to BP. Hell, it's fine to be armed when you do it. The problem arises when you confront people. Observe and report should be the gameplan, leave actual confrontation to BP.

Even professional private security has no more legal authority to arrest someone than any other citizen does.
These 'militia' are acting outside the bounds of the law and need to be arrested.

Did you read what I wrote? Clearly I'm not supporting attempts at arrest. Observation and reporting is perfectly fine, however.

[Thermodolia]

Only the Border Patrol should be arresting people. If they want to arrest people they can join the border patrol

[Genivaria]

Even professional private security has no more legal authority to arrest someone than any other citizen does.
These 'militia' are acting outside the bounds of the law and need to be arrested.

Did you read what I wrote? Clearly I'm not supporting attempts at arrest. Observation and reporting is perfectly fine, however.

I was actually supporting your statement, not opposing it.

[Thermodolia]

Ahh…The good ol' south.

New Mexico isn’t the south dude. It’s the south western US

[Kowani]

Ahh…The good ol' south.

New Mexico isn’t the south dude. It’s the south western US

American political geography makes no sense.

[Thermodolia]

New Mexico isn’t the south dude. It’s the south western US

American political geography makes no sense.

Makes quite a lot of sense actually. The south aka the south east ends around Texas

[Scomagia]

Did you read what I wrote? Clearly I'm not supporting attempts at arrest. Observation and reporting is perfectly fine, however.

I was actually supporting your statement, not opposing it.

Understood.

[Kowani]

American political geography makes no sense.

Makes quite a lot of sense actually. The south aka the south east ends around Texas

Yes, but why? Why isn’t NM part of the South? Is Kansas part of the south?

[Internationalist Bastard]

New Mexico isn’t the south dude. It’s the south western US

American political geography makes no sense.

Different cultures and such
The South West has a different economy, different history, it’s hot as an oven, as opposed to the south which is hot as balls

[Thermodolia]

Makes quite a lot of sense actually. The south aka the south east ends around Texas

Yes, but why? Why isn’t NM part of the South? Is Kansas part of the south?

NM isn’t part of the south, because it’s not in the southern US, it’s the southwest. Kansas is in the Great Plains aka the Midwest

[Internationalist Bastard]

Makes quite a lot of sense actually. The south aka the south east ends around Texas

Yes, but why? Why isn’t NM part of the South? Is Kansas part of the south?

No that’s the Midwest

[Kowani]

American political geography makes no sense.

Different cultures and such
The South West has a different economy, different history, it’s hot as an oven, as opposed to the south which is hot as balls

Ahh. I see.

Yes, but why? Why isn’t NM part of the South? Is Kansas part of the south?

NM isn’t part of the south, because it’s not in the southern US, it’s the southwest. Kansas is in the Great Plains aka the Midwest

Is the Southwest not southern?

[Internationalist Bastard]

Different cultures and such
The South West has a different economy, different history, it’s hot as an oven, as opposed to the south which is hot as balls

Ahh. I see.

NM isn’t part of the south, because it’s not in the southern US, it’s the southwest. Kansas is in the Great Plains aka the Midwest

Is the Southwest not southern?

Yeah a lot of people don’t understand America isn’t one monolith culture
Granted I don’t think any country bigger than a city state is but yeah

[Genivaria]

Ya'll just jelly ya'll don't have Tex-Mex.

[Thermodolia]

Different cultures and such
The South West has a different economy, different history, it’s hot as an oven, as opposed to the south which is hot as balls

Ahh. I see.

NM isn’t part of the south, because it’s not in the southern US, it’s the southwest. Kansas is in the Great Plains aka the Midwest

Is the Southwest not southern?

No the Southwest is not southern culturally or politically. Geographically it’s technically in the southern half of the US

[Thermodolia]

Ya'll just jelly ya'll don't have Tex-Mex.

Frontera exists dude

[Loben]

Because people own guns for the express purpose of shooting people.

When he’s going around detaining people with a semi-automatic, it’s safe to say that the gun’s not for hunting deer.

You do know there are semi auto hunting rifles?

[Internationalist Bastard]

Good
Fucking vigilantes

[Ifreann]

Why do you think he has a gun?

Because people own guns for the express purpose of shooting people.

People own guns for lots of reasons. People carry guns when they're rolling around pretending to be Border Patrol to intimidate their victims, and potentially to shoot some people.

[The Greater Ohio Valley]

Good. Lock all these border vigilante’s up.

This flow of people from South and Central America to up north, is far worse than the Ho Chi Minh trail in my mind. If this goes uninterrupted for too long, the nation is going to collapse from the inside out.

What’s “in your mind” is entirely unsupported by reality and facts.