We All Wished It Wouldn't Come to This: Nazis Are Patrolling The Arizona Border.

Neo-Nazi groups take up arms in Arizona to combat illegal immigration
BY Joe Tacopino

Nazis are patrolling the Arizona border.

With violence raging across the border in Mexico and Arizona's anti-immigration legislation stirring controversy in the state, militias with neo-Nazi ties have taken up arms and are patrolling the border in search of “narco-terrorists” and illegal immigrants.

Jason "J.T." Ready, who is tied to the white supremacist National Socialist Movement, has organized an armed militia to patrol the border and kill or capture immigrants trying to escape into the United States.

"We're not going to sit around and wait for the government anymore," Ready told the The Associated Press. "This is what our founding fathers did."

But local authorities are concerned about Ready's motives, particularly because of his ties to the National Socialist Movement, an organization devoted to "preservation of our European culture and heritage" and the "promotion of white separation."

"These are explicit Nazis," said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center said about the group. "These are people who wear swastikas on their sleeves."

The National Socialist Movement is also on the front lines of the border fight. The website, resplendent with Swastika symbols, features video of supremacy marches through Southern towns set to a soundtrack of skinhead punk rock.

The neo-Nazi site also posts "after-action reports" of their own vigilante border activities in Arizona and California, which reads like a cross between a CIA spy novel and a Scooby Doo mystery:

"We discovered two sets of prints, a cigarette, and beer bottles. We believed the cigarette to have been recently extinguished," the report reads. "We sent a comrade to drive the surrounding roads and even the main highway."

Although the militia groups claim their patrols and weapons are legal, local authorities have voiced disapproval at their actions.

"I'm not inviting them. And in fact, I'd rather they not come," said Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu. "Especially those who espouse hatred or bigotry such as [Ready]."

As for Ready and his group of border enforcers, violence has not been ruled out as a method of enforcement.

"They were bold enough to take up the law enforcement so we’ll see what happens throughout the night," Ready said during a recent patrol posted on YouTube.

"We'll kill them," he added.

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