one monitoring group said it was the 150th mass shooting in the u.s. this year. you're watching news from berlin coming up next reporter looks at our militias in the u.s. patrolling the border with mexico and don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website d.w. dot com on my ash waiter thanks for joining us. earth home for sending googling to us tell stories of creative people and the latest projects around the world ideas to protect the climate and boost green energy solutions by global the i'm blaming series of global 3 goals and on d w and online. i'm not out of the gym i guess sometimes i am but i stand up in the winter that. thinks deep into the german culture of looking

at stereotypes a question that is think the future of the country by now a long time. yet you don't seem to think that his grandmother. to me it's all about who. knew i might show join me to meet the jetman from d.w. post. such. these are members of one of the most notorious armed vigilante groups in the us operating in new mexico they try to apprehend people crossing the border and hand them over to u.s. border patrol the united constitutional patriots were accused of pointing assault rifles of people their leader was arrested for alleged unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition. so now they have a new name the guardian patriots their spokesman jim vendi says they are harmless

citizens defense group but the aim is the same to stop migrants at the. gym ben b. says he goes out on patrol to save his country to save it from illegal immigrants and what he considers dangerous people coming into the u.s. from mexico. every day he meets other members of the guardian patriots they meet in the desert not far from el paso . the militia has been described in the u.s. media as being close to the far right all right but the members deny this nevertheless many of them do not want to show their faces i try to move it and their course is going to meet up with you later on today for the guard to anyone who's coming in ok perfect this is card watch this is an open border and would

border patrol being strained it's an unprotected border so we need to be here we need to back up the border patrol they need our help they need more americans help . there's a border fence here at sunland park in new mexico the 5 and a half meter high structure was erected 2 years ago it's not as if anyone can climb bits but jim ben b. says the problem is that it is finite right here we've got lots of wall all the way down and right here sadly is where the wall ends and as a result of that i can literally cross in and out of mexico with absolutely no problem and so there's nothing here to stop anybody if i want to come in with drugs if i want to come in with kids or human traffickers sex trafficking is wide open right here in the u.s. border patrol does not patrol here very often so the spot draws more people attempting to cross. we got crosses replying to i find you.

a group of young people suddenly appears and is able to cross into the u.s. on hampered. the live on. the living. can't make it up. well right now we're watching them. we can't depend on. we can try to get them to stop what he's going to do you want to try to get them to stop. or call he's calling border patrol so border patrols lawyer we have eyes on him i just called over to right now tell him that they're heading down to the park. there is enough especially you know right now. if the guardian patriots were to use their weapon to detain the migrants they could be accused of kidnapping they listen to you they're not happy about this. it was about 10 of them . it's very frustrating to be honest with you you

know the 7 to 7 watch this and know that that if we do anything to try to stop this that we're the bad guys and and we have to watch this and now they're going up over the track so now they're going to make it more difficult for border patrol to go up but chin why don't you go down there and keep an eye on them so border patrol gets there. the next day they go out on patrol again chin things he's seen as human traffickers so he's raised the alarm there are 30 active members in the militia many of them are u.s. army veterans they support u.s. president donald trump's immigration policies and his campaign to build a wall i call false alarm it's going to take strong action it's going to take a lot of angry americans but the only way americans are going to get angry is if they see the truth so us a group of americans made up of all different backgrounds we call ourselves

patriots guardian patriots we're down here fighting to document the crisis on the border but the group has run into legal problems they're accused of detaining migrants at gunpoint this video shows a group of young men taken into custody. after it's. we're just getting ready for shift in the. game and they came into camp liberty. turned around and said we've. got. the guardian patriots acquired a dubious notoriety across the country as they united constitutional patriots the leader larry hopkins a convicted felon was arrested and accused of unlawful possession of firearms. how here pereo is the mayor of sunland park which he feels powerless because the law in new mexico allows people to carry arms openly if they're pointing

a gun at somebody then that can be considered an assault or if they are detaining individuals illegally then that back could be a violation of that individual's constitutional rights so i mean unless we see that actually happening it's. we can't take much action if the monument though there is little concrete proof that the militia is acting illegally there are many accusations. we knew we had an instant about an individual saying that why did why don't we line them up and shoot and this is an allegation at this point we can't prove any of that but i don't know what the mental condition of those individuals are whereas you have law enforcement individuals who have background checks who know how to handle the situations like this. jim bentley sees himself as the victim of biased media and liberal politicians he says that the guardian patriots all volunteers who adhere to the law and help the authorities. were not

enforcing the law or helping them observe illegal activity were reporting the illegal activity and therefore able to we're asking people to stop and sit down and that's what the border patrol needs right now that's what they want we're not arresting people we're not involved in the law enforcement process and that's a lie that's out there from the media and that's all i can say about it. many of president trump supporters use the same argument against those who contradict their worldview they denounce reports and facts as lies and fake news rougher and tougher than we ever did the american people have just as much of a right to carry a gun out here because when that water patrol guy came up and talked to us when we 1st got here right sitting next to him was the same rifle that i'd say why is it ok for them to carry a need not to carry well you know what we did we still carry i mean our trucks but yet for the sake of allowing the fake news media to continue their narrative

of i just don't care not were not given i mean we're not given the optics. are they come your heart we got to ok so i say here at night the guardian patriots lie in wait on the border that soon as a group of migrant touches u.s. soil they strike hey guys speak english anybody speak english. most people here are from honduras they're exhausted they haven't eaten or drunk anything for hours. on the. mean there's poverty and crime.

that's why we left you. went to the long have you been gone. in one month. and what were the last hours like. terrible. where hungry were called who were scared. right some people is try to escape by crossing the rio grande they get in my. chin himself is the son of undocumented immigrants from mexico but he doesn't sympathize with people trying to get here today back in the day you have to pay for your education you have to take yet speak english get to know the presidents and you know yeah it's hard but that's the legal way to do it when they just do it legal this way it cost the taxpayer money more i mean me every american has to pay more

for someone who wants to come in for free and get free everything i mean i never get nothing for the members of the militia seem to have a confused idea of all what's fair and right. in the end the us border patrol takes over the migrants will now be taken to register. another alarm apparently there's a human traffic close by a u.s. border patrol helicopter tries to find him from the air. with help from the militia members on the ground. despite all the official denials the border patrol in the militia working hand in hand here.

it took quite a few of us to actually get the group contained we didn't touch anybody as you saw it was all verbal commands but we were able to before the border patrol actually got here we were able to you know get everything handled through a team effort human rights activists such as from london got to see the queues the militias of imagining dangers that do not exist in actual fact and still can fear. what is the national security crisis i mean people it's just children mothers. grandmothers they are just torn in themselves to border patrol because they're looking for help so in that context why do we need. only and. what do we need a militia why do we i mean they are not needed i mean they just making things more complicated. but for jim bentley the fact that 100000 people arrived in the

u.s. without papers in april alone is a problem he is outraged he talks about this on facebook life and has thousands of followers listening to him. but again for those of you that are new to my videos. basically what's happening here guys is a not very violent invasion of the united states. people are coming through our border they know that all they have to do is claim asylum. and they like any other on the border near sunland park in new mexico jim bendy in the guardian patriot say that they will continue patrolling the border until the wall is finished i don't think we got the guy in the way. it is a priority. to .

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