[neodad]

Many of the hundreds who make up the self-appointed civilian patrols monitoring the border to deter smuggling of people and drugs are unemployed or underemployed ex-military men who have long resented Mexicans who come to the United States illegally and, in their view, compete for jobs, crowd hospitals and schools and threaten English as the nation's dominant language

So that's the new angle, just a bunch of angry white men.

[rbg81]

You beat me too it. What a piece of steaming crap, liberal hit piece this is! Most ex-military have litte or no trouble finding jobs as they are disciplined and responsible--two qualities that the MSM lacks. This is just a hit job on Patriots who care about protecting our country when (sadly) the Government won't.

You don't hear the MSM talking about the professional anti-war protestors this way.

[mtbopfuyn]

No, you left some out. They're troubled ex-military, gun toting, rusty Chevy van sleeping, unemployed, vigilante, Nazi, bigot, angry white men.

[Czar]

"So that's the new angle, just a bunch of angry racist white men."

Not entirely new. FR's tiny resident contingent of quislings have been using this theme for quite some time.

[DumpsterDiver]

Many of the hundreds who make up the self-appointed civilian patrols... are unemployed or underemployed ex-military men who have long resented Mexicans who come to the United States illegally and, in their view, compete for jobs, crowd hospitals and schools and threaten English as the nation's dominant language.

So that's the new angle, just a bunch of angry white men.

Not only that, but they're ex-military, carry guns, can't or won't get jobs and only resent illegal immigration when it's Mexicans. Citizens having to compete with illegals for jobs, illegals crowding the hospitals and schools must only exist in their imagination.

What a hit piece of an article.

BTW, I guess I could be considered unemployed or underemployed, but I prefer to call it retirement.