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Authorities keep distance, yet work with armed border group

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Two El Paso men who were fishing on the Rio Grande in Sunland Park were skeptical of the group.

“We all look Mexican. How are they going to know the difference?” asked Angel Martinez, a 34-year-old factory worker. “That’s what Border Patrol is for.”

His friend and fellow fisherman Henry Aguilar, a delivery driver, once worked at an immigration detention center where he came into contact with hardened Central American gang members from MS-13, who he’s glad were deported. But the families being detained by the militia “are not even threats,” he said.

In the past, vigilante patrols interrupted his fishing farther downstream, near where the United Constitutional Patriots plan to relocate. He believes a member of the group approached him last summer.

“He told us we couldn’t fish there. I told him to identify himself, and he refused to do so,” Aguilar recalled. “He had camo gear on, and he had a hat, and he was covered from the nose down.”