‘This is a war’: Meet the Texas ranchers forming their own border militia
by
Isabelle Vincent
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
4/23/2019 10:36:54 AM
For Mike Vickers, not much has changed here since 1823, the year a group of frontier lawmen formed the Texas Rangers to protect settlers and their land. “We’re still dealing with the bad guys from Mexico,” Vickers, 69, told The Post, referring to smugglers who traffic in drugs and migrants. “This is a war.” Dressed in a cowboy hat, tan cargo pants and weathered boots, Vickers, a veterinarian, runs Las Palmas Animal Hospital, but he’s also chairman of the Texas Border Volunteers, a 300-strong militia helping thinly spread Customs and Border Patrol agents cover more than a million acres of private land
Reply 1 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/23/2019 10:42:25 AM (No. 42799)
Why not deputize them?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
FunOne 4/23/2019 10:44:44 AM (No. 42808)
Since our professional soldiers are willing to surrender their weapons to approaching armed Mexicans, the militia might be the better approach to our border security.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/23/2019 10:49:03 AM (No. 42800)
During my college days at New Mexico Tech back in the 1970s, one of the campus security guards, Tom Frazier, was a former Texas Ranger. He was in his 70s then. I admired his Colt 45 with the Ivory handles. He was a big man. 6 foot 6 inches at least, skinny as a rail. And hands as big as a catcher´s mitt. You didn´t want to shake his hand unless you wanted to hear all of your knuckles crack at the same time. Nicest person I ever met and will ever meet. He loved his country hugely. If he was still here now, he would be down there protecting us and the country.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 4/23/2019 11:22:45 AM (No. 42807)
Americans pulling together, like the Cajun Navy. Democrats HATE this. Only the GVT should be able to do things like this. This is the huge Achilles Heel of the Dems-they want all the power but cannot be trusted to wield it.
Kamala Harris wants to issue an Executive Order confiscating guns.
Bernie Sanders wants felons and terrorists to vote.
AOC wants to hamstring the economy with the Green New Deal-and she thinks that the VA is an example of a a well-run gvt. program!
Beto wants to remove border walls.
Ilhan Omar says that the US Army massacred thousands of Somali´s in the Blackhawk Down incident-when we were trying to feed starving people cut off from aid by criminal warlords.
They all want power over us but must never be allowed to have it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
dman 4/23/2019 11:28:05 AM (No. 42805)
Remember how the West was won. Time to win it again.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 4/23/2019 11:37:31 AM (No. 42798)
When the government won´t do it´s job, it´s up to the citizens to enforce the law.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 4/23/2019 11:38:08 AM (No. 42802)
Prayers for providential protection and guidance. Be safe, OP. May God bless and be with them in this war.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
caddyjak 4/23/2019 11:59:44 AM (No. 42803)
How do we contribute?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 4/23/2019 12:11:20 PM (No. 42806)
New Mexico citizens stopped and detained some illegals for the Border Patrol (I don´t know if at gunpoint) and our famous FBI arrested the citizens for a crime. It´s not fair and right when illegals are protected and Americans are arrested, detained and possibly go broke with legal fees for protecting our border. Things have got to change if we are going to secure the border. The President needs to give a blanket order to leave citizens alone while not condoning it or bring home our military and put them all on the southern border.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
PChristopher 4/23/2019 12:29:53 PM (No. 42809)
I´m glad SOMEONE understands it´s a war. There´s a war on with ISLAM, too, and everybody understands that fact but US!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
clipped wings 4/23/2019 12:30:21 PM (No. 42811)
#9, our "famous FBI" as you so aptly put it, did, indeed arrest a group of civilians who were trying to assist the Border Patrol.
What is it with the gubbermint? Do those in DC want to totally denude us. Oh, well, I answered my own question.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-arrests-leader-of-armed-civilian-group-stopping-illegal-aliens-in-new-mexico_2888556.html
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Talk2 4/23/2019 12:32:07 PM (No. 42797)
It´s only a matter of time until one of the border towns is overrun and people killed by rampaging illegals.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
judy 4/23/2019 1:03:50 PM (No. 42801)
Why can´t each state build their own wall & bill it to feds as a national disaster?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 4/23/2019 1:18:11 PM (No. 42804)
If it well and truly starts down there, and they need volunteers, I may take a few months to help them.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
HPmatt 4/23/2019 2:18:44 PM (No. 42810)
Check out the TBV website - you can donate there. Look at the years of pics - rape trees, ID cards from all over the world, muslim prayer rugs, dead bodies recovered in the unforgiving South Texas mesquite scrubland, destroyed fences, ransacked ranch houses, etc. They operate in Brooks County, that has 2-3 deputies in a 1000 square mile county with 7000 residents. The Federal Border checkpoint is in the county about 70 miles from the border, so the US coyotes drop their load of illegals a few miles short of it, they walk thru the scrub past it and back to the highway north of the checkpoint.
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Border Patrol has warned us all not to leave home unarmed. These are neighbors. Good people.