Inside an Arizona Border Militia

Aug 29, 2015
12:02 PM

This week on Latino USA, two award-winning journalists spend a night with Arizona Border Recon, a volunteer militia made up of former soldiers hunting down immigrants in the Sonoran Desert:

In 2008, Tim Foley was living in Phoenix and making $40 an hour running construction crews. Then the financial crash happened, and his life went up in smoke: he lost his job and his home. He couldn’t find another decent paying job, and felt that it was because there were too many immigrants working illegally in the country and chopping wages. Frustrated and adrift, Foley drove down to southern Arizona, living out of his truck at first. If the government wasn’t going to secure the border, Foley decided, then he would.