A Vigilante Militia Defends an Imaginary Border
▻https://theintercept.com/2019/05/18/border-militia-texas-mexico-guardian-patriots
“Is that what we think it is ?” gasped a woman on the Patriot Caravan. The MAGA- and Trump-hatted group of about 25 people were on a walking tour of the U.S.-Mexico border in the desert near El Paso, Texas. It was led by a large, garrulous man named Jim Benvie, a member of the Guardian Patriots, which used to be the United Constitutional Patriots, or UCP. “Oh sh … It might be the coyotes bringing them in !” said another woman. “It is what you think it is,” said Benvie. As he lectured about (...)