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FBI arrests leader of armed group stopping migrants in New Mexico

FBI Arrests New Mexico Border Militia Leader Larry Mitchell Hopkins.

The FBI on Saturday said it had arrested Larry Hopkins, the leader of an armed group that is stopping undocumented migrants after they cross the US-Mexico border into New Mexico.

The arrest came two days after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) accused the group of illegally detaining migrants and New Mexico’s Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered an investigation.

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