The brazen double-murder of Raul Flores and his 9-year-old daughter Brisenia by an anti-immigrant racist is captured in VICE’s newest documentary.
The 41-minute movie, titled Murder at America’s Border: the Story of Anti-Immigrant Vigilante, covers the crime, committed by former Minuteman leader (dressed in Border Patrol garb) Shawna Forde and a handful of other vigilantes. Forde and her crew killed Raul and Brisenia and shot Raul’s wife Gina (the lone survivor) during a brazen invasion of Flores’ Arivaca home way back in 2009.
The slayings sent shockwaves through the nation, and touched off a vitriolic chapter in Arizona and American history that’s still being dealt with today.
VICE host Chris Herde takes us through the crime, and its effect on the small border community in the documentary (which you can watch above).
This article appears in Nov 30 – Dec 6, 2017.
Almost 10 yrs after this horrific murder a handful of Arivaca residents choose to hold a memorial gathering for Raul and Brisenia because a group of concerned citizens who patrol the border have bought property in Arivaca? While these are the same people who insist that all illegal aliens should not be lumped into a heinous criminal category, they have no problem whatsoever lumping the Arizona Border Recon folks into a category akin to Shawna Fordes self proclaimed militia. The double standard and faux tolerance from these assuming hippies is nauseating at best. *How does one condone the actions of a drug and human trafficker by saying “Other than those felonious activities Raul was a good guy?” He was a cartel affiliate who put himself and his family at risk and the entire town refuses to speak ill of the drug cartel(s) at every turn and in every interview. Its as if the influx of drugs through our southern borders doesnt exist and only poor Mexican immigrants are using the brutal and unforgiving mountainous terrain to cross. The sooner these border residents call out the “real evil” that penetrates their town 24/7 the better off they and every resident will be. *(Please note: The above statement in no way is meant to trivialize the murders that took place nor give credence to Shawna Forde or the savages involved, I hope they all suffer greatly for their actions.)
These European hypocrites are worried about illegal Immigration when they are the worst and the original illegal aliens. They are NOT indigenous to the Native American homelands but are squatters on the Indigenous American land. This family has more Native American DNA in their little pinky, than these White illegal Colonial settlers could ever wish to have. These people are the type who claim a mythical Native ancestor who was a “Cherokee Princess” that never existed. There is nothing Native or Nativest about these squatters.