“I had to take an oath, and part of the oath was that I couldn’t eat Mexican food. That’s when red flags went up all over for me. That seemed like prejudice.”
Merrill Metzger, formerly of Minuteman American Defense
UPDATE: Debby, official sister of NewMexiKen, and one-time resident of Arivaca, reports after reading the article:
Junior was not a drug dealer and did not traffic in “narcotics” as those people imagined. He had an arrest for pot when he was 19, which hardly qualifies. He was a dad, though, so he quit any of that activity years ago. Yes, he had nice vehicles and money, which may have given the killers the impression that he must be a dealer. But, just because a Mexican on the border has money, doesn’t mean he’s running drugs. (They never mention in the articles that the people didn’t find any drugs or money. I imagine the cops looked, too, as long as they were in there.) In reality, Junior ran a feed store in a small agricultural town, so he did well enough, especially considering that he lived in the same family place his whole life, and there was no big mortgage to pay or anything. His money was his own, not spent on high monthly bills, so he could afford nice vehicles. I actually knew his grandfather, the one in the article who is a good soul, and [my son] went to elementary school with Junior. [My son’s fiancée] even knew the murdered daughter from activities at the community center. It’s rocked the town, but it’s hardly the first occasion of violence down there–just the the one with the most national coverage because of the lunatics who perpetrated the violence.