Arizona Border Recon

Arizona Border Recon
Abbreviation AZBR
Formation 2011
Type Paramilitary militia
Location
Key people
 Tim Foley (founder)

Arizona Border Recon (AZBR) is an American paramilitary militia group in Arizona composed of former military, law enforcement and private security contractors.[1] The group was featured in the 2015 documentary Cartel Land. According to Chicago Film Critics Association member Bill Stamets, the documentary was inspired by a December, 2012 Rolling Stone report.[2]

The group was formed in 2011 by an Arizona man, Tim Foley, a former construction supervisor and Army veteran.[3][4] As of late 2015, the group had c. 200 members operating in the Altar Valley around Sasabe, Arizona,[4][5][6][7] 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[3] and preventing infiltration by foreign terrorists.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Tim Gaynor (October 26, 2014), Desert Hawks: Paramilitary veterans group stakes out US-Mexico borderlands, Al Jazeera
  2. ↑ Bill Stamets (July 22, 2015), "Cartel Land: civilian outliers versus outlaw capitalists", billstamets.com (blog)
  3. 1 2 "Arizona Border Recon" (Streaming audio), Latino USA, NPR, August 28, 2015
  4. 1 2 Damon Tabor (December 20, 2012), "Border of Madness", Rolling Stone, pp. 96–101, document ID 1269705456 – via ProQuest
  5. ↑ 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
  6. ↑ Navideh Forghani (November 24, 2015), Arizona Border Recon takes border protection into their own hands, KNXV-TV News (ABC 15)
  7. ↑ Tim Steller (May 27, 2012), "Militias in Arizona thrive despite lack of authorizing law", Arizona Daily Star
  8. ↑ Peter Holley (November 25, 2015), "These armed civilians are patrolling the border to keep ISIS out of America", The Washington Post

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