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Arizona Border Recon
AbbreviationAZBR
Formation2011
Type Licensed Intelligence Gathering Organization
Location
Key people
Tim Foley (founder)

Arizona Border Recon (AZBR) is a licensed intelligence gathering organization and provider of humanitarian aid 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. ^ a b "Arizona Border Recon" (Streaming audio), Latino USA, NPR, August 28, 2015
  4. ^ a b 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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