Members of a self-titled “Army of God” convoy that traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border to protest border policies went on to film themselves harassing residents and migrants after their rally was over. Meanwhile, almost half of American Jews altered their behavior in recent months out of fear of anti-Semitism, a new report finds . And the world’s largest database of far-right and extremist symbols gets a major update.
It’s the week in extremism.
Live-streamers filmed themselves ‘hunting’ migrants
After traveling to Texas for a rally earlier this month, some participants in an “Army of God” border rally went on to film themselves harassing and “hunting” migrants, according to a story published this week in WIRED magazine.
- The livestreamers were part of the convoy that traveled from Virginia toward the tiny town of Eagle Pass , Texas, which has become the epicenter of a national legal dispute over border enforcement.
- After a rally near Eagle Pass, three far-right internet personalities spent a week traversing the border in Arizona and California harassing migrants and volunteer groups that support them, WIRED reported.
- “We’re illegal hunters,” one of the men said during a livestream from Jacumba Hot Springs in California, according to WIRED. “I’ve hunted a lot in my life, but I’ve never actually hunted people, and that’s what we’re doing now.”