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Arizona Border Recon (AZBR) is an American paramilitary militia group in Arizona comprised of former military, law enforcement and private security contractors.(Gaynor) The group was featured in the 2015 documentary Cartel Land. The group was formed in 2011 by an Arizona man, Tim Foley, a former construction supervisor.(NPR) As of late 2015, the group had c. 200 members operating around Sasabe, Arizona,(Sim)(ABC)(Steller) armed with personal weapons including pistols, shotguns and semi-automatic rifles. AZBR originally targeted illegal immigration, but as of 2015 had a stated goal of disrupting drug smuggling across the United States-Mexico border.(NPR)
References
edit- Tim Gaynor, Desert Hawks: Paramilitary veterans group stakes out US-Mexico borderlands, Al Jazeera
- Laura Mallonee (September 23, 2015), "On a Mission With the Men of Arizona Border Recon", Wired
- Navideh Forghani (November 24, 2015), Arizona Border Recon takes border protection into their own hands, ABC 15
- See the members of this unofficial border patrol: The Arizona Border Recon aims to provide intel and back-up for federal officers at the U.S.-Mexican border, High Country News
- "Arizona Border Recon" (Streaming audio), Latino USA, NPR, August 28, 2015
- David Sim (November 17, 2016), "Heavily armed civilian vigilantes patrol US-Mexico border for illegal immigrants: Arizona Border Recon conduct reconnaissance operations along a 52-mile desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley", International Business Times
- Tim Steller (May 27, 2012), "Militias in Arizona thrive despite lack of authorizing law", Arizona Daily Star
- Peter Holley (November 25, 2015), "These armed civilians are patrolling the border to keep ISIS out of America", The Washington Post