On Saturday, April 20th, the FBI arrested Larry Mitchell Hopkins, who had been operating under the alias Johnny Horton Jr. Hopkins was the leader of a right-wing militia group that was detaining migrant families at gunpoint near the border in southern New Mexico. Hopkins was arrested on charges of firearms possession by a felon. This is only a minor charge against Hopkins, and it is likely that this will lead to a deeper investigation.
Professed militia groups such as the one Hopkins controlled have a long history of targeting immigrants from Latin America, even tracing back to the Ku Klux Klan creation of it’s own border patrol in the 1970’s.
United Constitutional Patriots, the militia group run by Hopkins turned migrants in to Border Patrol. Before turning them in, they posted videos of members detaining children and parents near El Paso, Texas at gun point.
Regardless of your stance on migrants, he had no authority to do this and should not have done this. I cannot imagine the amount of trauma the people he and his group did this to are going through.
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