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Thursday, September 22, 2022

Alleged Armed Smugglers Caught on Arizona Border Trail Camera Escorting Captured Men

 "Socalj" for Borderland Beat

A trail camera set up near the Arizona/US-Mexico border shows a group of men, including those with their hands tied behind their backs.

On June 11, 2022, a video was captured on a trail camera first showing two men in tan camo, carrying radios and with visible holsters, on a trail on the Arizona side of the Mexico border, close to the remote area of Arivaca which is about 11 miles from the Mexico border.  The only supplies they have are carrying the drink can and bottle they are carrying.

The camera had been set up by Arizona Border Recon, a group that reportedly reports and observes illegal smugglers and migrants. Tim Foley is the founder of Arizona Border Recon and was featured in the documentary Cartel Land. He calls it an "intelligence gathering company" rather than a militia. He organizes armed patrols of the borderlands. But others including the Southern Poverty Law Center have deemed them a civilian paramilitary militia group carrying out armed border patrols.

They will usually set up the cameras near key points or near humanitarian water and food drops from the group "No More Deaths" to help track active trails being used by both illegal migrants and drug smugglers crossing the Mexican border into the Arizona desert.





Around 20 minutes later, the camera shows a large group of men walking in the opposite direction, back towards Mexico. 

At the front of the caravan is a pair of men with their hands appearing to be tied behind their backs. Several other men in similar colored camo are walking behind. 


A pair of men at the back, in tan camo, are carrying pistols. While the color of the camo is similar to the first two men in the video, the color of the face covering and hat on one of the men doesn't match, nor does the location of the visible holster. So it is not known if the armed men are the same ones from earlier in the video.




The area where the video was captured is notorious for asylum seekers, illegal migrants, and smugglers crossing the border. Arivaca is at one end of Project 28, the test of SBInet. SBInet was the effort by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Boeing Company to secure US land borders using radar technology and sensors.

On 12 June 2018, a United States Border Patrol agent was wounded in an early morning shootout with Mexican smugglers near Arivaca. The US Border Patrol agent was on foot patrol and alone, responding to a movement sensor activation in Chimney Canyon along a well-known smuggler's route, which leads north from the international boundary to Arivaca, about 10 miles north of the border. While investigating the activation, the agent was ambushed and fired upon and was shot in one of his hands and one of his legs, and several times more in his bulletproof vest. The agent who is also a paramedic was able to return fire and escape his attackers while applying first aid and retreating to his patrol vehicle, where he was able to call for assistance; eventually being evacuated via helicopter.

Source Arizona Border Recon, AZBR, CNN, NPR, SPLC

60 comments:

  1. Those dudes need to be shot. Save that shit for your shit country.

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    1. 11:55 I hope you mean the coyotes. I may say some foul as shit but I would never say that about a immigrant trying a buck for his family

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    2. “Save that shit for your shit country” f you dude. There’s not need for that crap.

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    3. 9:36 I wasn't going to allow that comment in. But every so often I allow them in so that everyone can hear the dumbest mother fuckers in the world speak. 😆

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    4. 11:55 - thank you!
      9:36 - the ignorant, inhumane, stupidity out there is concerning but healthy to present as you have.

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    5. Chapo Isidro (former BLO) squeezing out some revenue from kidnapping immigrants. Now their families will hear them tortured and have to borrow money from the “leg break lenders” in their country to pay the ransom.
      Very cruel revenue stream.

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    6. 11:55 your such a DORK.

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    7. @ 11:55 you’re the Typical white boy with the white boy answer. Of you so want this to happen, why not join Border bought-troll and make it easy for this to happen? The AZ desert is HUGE, cartels are all over them (biggest corridor in ‘Merica), and lack of BP agents makes it easier to hang out like a f it was Mex.

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    8. 10:07 Isidro smuggling migrants?
      Lol

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    9. 10:02 a mi no me engañas tu eres 11:55 y te estas contestando solo, you feeling lonely? Need a friend? Some attention? A hugh?

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    10. Fake outrage with racial comment s! What’s wrong with that comment you phonies? That garbage is everyday all day in Mexico the corrupt failed narco terrorist country! IS IT NOT?! Where’s the outrage when during trial testimony stated chapo was flying very underage girls to have sex with?! Where the outrage over the mass rape and mass murder of girls/women in Mexico? You words reek of “strong and proud,” while at the same time reek of victimization of the White man and his “racist” words/ways! Which is it? Mexico is a genocide consisting of rape and murder! Who wants to fucking argue and fake outrage over those FACTS!

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    11. 1:25am; You really need to get out of the basement every once in a while….

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    12. True, they do need to be shot, we should defend our borders like Israel does.

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    13. 1:25 you need to throw some pizza on top of your Q-anon shit...
      You talk like Q-anon Lt Gen Michael Flynn who "read" ISIS messages in a Tejas' cavern, left there to orient mexican coyotes or sompim'

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    14. In a month or 2 I really hope one of these dudes will be spitting in your breakfast while he works another double shift and you are muttering to yourself about Bad ''Hambres''.

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  2. We need to invade Mexico/guatamala border and manage it from there. America not protecting the borders, our laws are to weak and Mexico encourages it.

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    1. Did you also want the law abiding citizens, that have no weapons, invaded too?

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    2. 8:58 stop it u John Wayne "wanna be" n go secure the schools churches full of unarmed innocent people n protect those people from ur own crazy Americans citizens,after u do that u can work ur way south Mr "wanna be patriot"

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    3. Those cartel coyotes are bad and these whites and white washed Latinos who never served in the armed forces or done anything good for America all of a sudden want to get all Rambo and patriotic but shit there pants when the bullets started flying. They should put them to go work the fields pinches huevones!

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    4. 8:58, for someone who spent real fighting time for US military in far more troubled countries than Mexico; this reads as sheer stupidity.

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    5. 10:04 Exactly, all those fools talking about "we should invade such and such" are the first ones to say, i cant go cause i have a bad knee, pinches culos
      8:58 go ahead bro we will follow you

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    6. 8:58 when you toppled presidente Jacob Arbenz and created a banana republic dictatorship in guatermala AND established your School of the Americas franchise, just because Nixon got a shower forgotten eggs, you created the start of emigration to the US

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  3. Shame on US Border Patrol for allowing a single member respond with no backup, but thank god for the survival and training the solo responder had!

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    1. Excellent point. I'm a South Texas, Coahila,Chihuahua lifelong hunter and we haven't hunted alone in 10 years (but we did the 20 before about 2010.
      That trail cam was amazing quality - beautiful Mosquite tree in the frame, but very sad for those taken....

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    2. @10:30
      What did you or do you hunt? Im hearing whites are being threatened and hunted down by Mexicans over there.

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    3. 11:25am, White tail, mountain lion (in Mx), and dove (migration pattern permitting). We hunted across the Presidio River the longest and as we're going out to blinds many evenings we pass convoys coming toward lake Amistad. Usually wave at each other but sometimes they'll stop and ask how hunting is going - but never had problem from convoys, and the ranch hands keep migrants from stealing from the hunting lease house.

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    4. Most agents are by themselves, it’s a huge area to cover and backup is always far away. I give it to these men, they have balls (agents)… and sometimes they actually do their job and they control a large group, but times are changing. Cartel leaders no longer fear prison and they don’t care who gets shot.

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  4. Off topic
    Ukraine War
    Putin soldiers getting killed in war.
    He tells Moscow 300,000to go.
    Protest in Russia.
    Russian men leaving in planes to other countries.
    Putin is losing.

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    1. Putin is in dire need of more soldiers to fight the war. Recently the male citizens of Russia that are protesting the War, are Not getting locked up, they are being drafted in to the War.
      Russia is getting F up, along with sanctions.

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    2. Putting laughing at the sanctions.
      They haven't slowed Russia down one bit, putin doesn't want to take over Ukraine just yet.
      When he really feels like it we will all know

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    3. 5:48 Bladdermir Putin can laugh all he wants, he is not going to the front to die, especially after so many dumbos and their generales have been killed over there, not that he is a chicken, but he has never been at war, buying yatches and expensive residences is not good preparation for war but it can buy you a ticket to hang dead from the Kremlin.

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    4. 7:32 if the US of A still had the muscle and power it used to possess over the world, Russia would be invaded by the US and the UN. All old man Biden can do is talk and talk and give billions of dollars to Ukraine. The US is going through a recession and Biden just keeps giving billions of money away to Mexico for the fake war on drugs that both countries don't want to stop.
      War is just onother way for the rich to get richer

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    5. 8:34 It costs money to fight a war.
      If the USA did not help , they are damned if the USA helps they are damned too. Genocide of a big magnatude would have happened, other Countries are helping out, since USA got involved.

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  5. Russian immigrants are on their way to the borders right now. Canadian and Mexican borders. 6400 Russians entered Finland yesterday.
    Maybe a couple flights from Europe to Orlando Florida is in order. Everyone loves Disney World.

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    1. russia will run mexican shithole soon😂😂😂

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  6. This is my town not yours -… the funny thing all these anglos are the immigrants coming from Europe call them the wet bodies

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    1. The only ones who belong over here are the Mexicans!
      All others are foreigners who need to go back!

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    2. Your stupidity is hilarious

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    3. Ever heard of the word "conquered "? It's the same as it ever was for humankind. Get over and used to it.

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  7. Arizona Border Recon is literally a White Nationalist group.

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    1. +1

      Very important context to keep in mind with their claims. AZ Recon are the definition of an unreliable narrator.

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    2. We don't need a bunch of hillbillies with squirrel guns along the border. These guys only make life more difficult for the Border Patrol. This group appears to have become less confrontational. I have no problem with them setting up trail cameras, but carrying firearms is only going to lead to trouble. What they forget is that the Border Patrol has a strategy for protecting the border and that they sometimes interfere with that strategy. They may be setting off ground sensors causing the Border Patrol to respond to false alarms.
      The Border Patrol may be intentionally leaving this valley open so they can catch the smugglers further inland when they are too far inside of the U.S. to run back into Mexico. They are most likely interfering with Border Patrol operations and yet they fail to comprehend this. The Border Patrol needs to educate these individuals on how they are interfering with Border Patrol operations so they knock this stuff off.

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    3. Border Militias have existed since the 80's and do more good than bad. Fact.

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    4. What we don’t need are mexicans invading our land puta

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    5. @detroit spot on

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    6. Only thing those minute men do is throw the bottle waters set up by people trying to save human lives.
      The leader of the minute men in arizona is in prison and was charged with a couple of felonies a few years back. Bunch of racist hillbillies just being noisy and interfering with border patrol agents.
      Haven't heard from them in a while, last I heard was the hillbillie leader getting caught with felonies

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    7. Fuck those pinche gabacho hope the cartels slaughter those fucks. Cartels are evil but can’t stand pinche gabachos thinking just because you are of Mexican descent born in the US you are less then them. The real Americans have native blood which whites have none!

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    8. @8.08. ''They do more good than bad?'' If a young father dies of thirst in the desert cos they ''intervened'', and you have one less young Mexican who might have come to America, and a mother and child who now have no way of getting to America, and might never know what happened to their loved one, does that go in your ''Good'' column, or your ''Bad '' column? Those militias undermine every attempt to find a humanitarian middle-ground between what politicians want and what they know is happening. Whenever I think of the Minute -Men I think of Missy Elliot.

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  8. This shot has been going on on Arizona as far back as when the gringos stole Arizona from the Mexicans.
    I don't see them coyotes or drug smugglers getting stopped a y time soon. Those coyotes have their way of moving and the border is to big.
    That's wall Trump made hasn't done nothing but make them laugh. 😆

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    1. We’re just superior, that’s why we own AZ🤣🤣🤣

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    2. Superior how? can’t even defend yourselves from the sun!

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  9. Bandits/ competing groups ripping illegals or dope loads. May even be that dude leading the mule train North didn't pay Piso and they came after him. Happens every day. For those that don't like the Militias, evidence has shown that the Militias do disrupt trafficker/ pollero activity.

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  10. Yeah sol prendido only likes the dumb mf mex’s commenting🤣🤣🤣

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    1. Yup, make your own blog so you can monitor the comment section 😆

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  11. As always, great reporting! you guys provide great news coverage.

    Reporting is great and ppls comments are just getting dumber.

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    1. 1:41 just like yours.
      I see you don't agree with comments but that doesn't mean they are wrong

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  12. I dont see anyone with their hands tied behind back.

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  13. Mexicans can't admit failed state & everyone else are dumb white ass..you've come to be cheering hyenas an we can't help til you Admit we are, who we are millions with only a few in charge 🇨🇦🇨🇦🖤🇨🇦🇨🇦

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  14. Border governors, declare an invasion, call out your State militias and do your duty.

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  15. @10.04. Israel is a sliver of land with a precarious hold on it, surrounded by genuine enemies. I'm no fan of Israel, but there is nothing more pathetic than Goliath pretending he is David.

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