New Mexico militia member advocated shooting, gassing immigrants Hitler style - Polidicks

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ucp-border-militiaman-gas-chamber-hitler-allegations_n_5cd19703e4b04e275d50736c?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmVkZGl0LmNvbS9yL3BvbGl0aWNzL2NvbW1lbnRzL2JsdG84bS9ib3JkZXJfbWlsaXRpYW1hbl9hbGxlZ2VkbHlfYWR2b2NhdGVkX3B1dHRpbmcv&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGkz-AKWLplyqwcqA3UmUfCXEz1HNujcULKFT3N4RcPgDs4gaV7w3hCCL3lE_OSrB_Hbxx2518DuC1YiQjuG9ERFivm7v6YxW-VeNWH4EFj5kj0Et7wIojPo62jJaQ8TSP-M54mcGrCTegeuZgXCQqFEqeCvCT9bqE8_PwHEDuKB A member of the United Constitutional Patriots ― a group of violent militiamen at the U.S.-Mexico border that has been accused of detaining hundreds of immigrants and plotting to kill top Democrats ― allegedly referenced Adolf Hitler and said he would like to put all immigrants “in a gas chamber.” Steven Brant, a former member of the UCP who went by the code name “Viper,” told police in New Mexico that he had heard Armando Gonzalez advocating for putting immigrants in gas chambers, according to a Sunland Park Police report first obtained by Ken Klippenstein of The Young Turks. “Why are we just apprehending them and not lining them up and shooting them?” Brant alleged Gonzalez asked about a group that had been detained. “We have to go back to Hitler days and put them all in a gas chamber.” Brant told police he had left the UCP to start a new militia that “followed the law.” He told authorities that Gonzalez gave him a gun when he observed several immigrants crossing the border on the night of April 24. Brant said he returned the firearm and argued they were only supposed to observe and report. Gonzalez then reportedly got upset and made the comments about Hitler. The leader of the UCP, Larry Mitchell Hopkins, was arrested last month on a federal complaint charging him as a felon in possession of firearms.

Damn, I wish I could oppose these guys, but that would mean I want open borders, such a shame that there are literally 2 positions to be had on these totally-not-domestic-terrorists Also glad to confirm that there is definitely no overlap between anti-immigration politics and white nationalism

At least another member of the militia reported him. I still think allowing militias to patrol the borders and detain immigrants is super far from what militias were actually intended to be and should be shut down hard.

Oppose them and Trump's America will try you for being a terrorist for the self defense charges you'd rightfully have in a reasonable country...

Only if those immigrants get to shoot and gas you back. It's ironic that a guy with a name like 'Armando Gonzales' is the one advocating for the final solution against immigrants, let alone in the nation that spearheaded the punishments against its architects.

I feel secondhand embarrassment when I see pictures of border militia groups. Watching grown men playing dress-up, bringing all their toys, the forced mythos behind their shitty velcro patches, names, symbology. The obvious compensatory nature of it, the personal impotence and inner poverty that would lead someone to desire that kind of power over migrants. It really is contemptible.

Militias haven't made sense since we started having a standing army. Even the role that militias would fill are handled by the National Guard.

You'll recall a seminole man had pretty much the same idea and had his van literally covered in stickers of the guy who hung a fucking double size portrait of Andrew Jackson in his office. Being an idiot doesn't have race sex creed or color, just diminished sympathy and often self loathing.

Somehow one of the internet's most well known neo-nazis is literally named "Fuentes" who also thinks it's possible to simultaneously be a KGB asset, nazi, and American patriot. These people have long ago abandoned even the ability to acknowledge the concept of self awareness.

there are a lot more alt-right and outright white nationalist latinos than you'd think.

If we can't solve current day immigration issues with the far right going full reeeee when we're fucked when climate change does the dirty and displaces 100s of millions of people.

if they arrest, detain, and prosecute humanity workers for bringing water to asylum seekers in the desert these guys should face the same treatment, but they vote republican so they don't.