Border Vigilante Movement

Part of the anti-immigrant extremist movement, border vigilantes conduct armed, sometimes paramilitary patrols along the U.S.-Mexico border, attempting to chase and detain migrants under the delusion that they are fighting drug cartels. Border vigilantes have attracted some white supremacists, as well as many from the anti-government extremist militia movement.

This database provides an overview of many of the terms and individuals used by or associated with movements and groups that subscribe to and/or promote extremist or hateful ideologies.