Global Courant 2023-04-30 17:14:57
In his years of doing this job, Foley said he’s never been shot at. He said people usually just surrender and drop their load or run back to Mexico.
Foley said he started doing this job after the 2008 financial crisis. He made a decent living as a construction crew superintendent, but left when work dried up and his pay collapsed.
He sold his house, his belongings, and now lives in ramshackle digs near the border, collecting donations and doing work he says the US government should be doing.
He is deeply, bitterly anti-government. His disdain extends to the Border Patrol, which he believes, despite its members’ claims, has all the resources it needs.
He longs for the union to be dissolved and for the workers to be evicted from their vehicles and offices, who must camp along these trails in week-long shifts, do as he does.
Oh – he was in Washington on January 6, 2021.
In his view, that attack on the US Capitol was less damaging than leftist protests, and possibly just a preview of what is to come here, in a country of heavily armed, angry citizens, millions of whom have combat experience.
