Texas GOPers’ Border Cosplay Becomes Target For Violent Extremists And Grifters – By Nicole Lafond (TPM) / Feb 6, 2024
A Tennessee man was arrested on gun charges late last week after the FBI alleged that he was scheming to violently attack immigrants and Border Patrol agents at the southern border.
While the man, Paul Faye of Montgomery County, Tennessee, had allegedly been plotting a potential attack for the past year, he was spurred on by talk of an “invasion” at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the FBI — the very rhetoric Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been using publicly to justify his standoff with the federal government there.
The arrest was first reported by a senior researcher at the University of Nebraska Omaha’s National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center, Seamus Hughes. You should go to his write up at Courtwatch for a summary of all the concerning details of the criminal complaint, but here are some top lines:
- Faye was arrested and charged with possession of an unregistered silencer, which was attached to a Creedmoor rifle.
