Neo-Nazi militia patrolling Arizona

PHOENIX - MINUTEMEN groups, a surge in Border Patrol agents, and a tough new immigration law aren't enough for the neo-Nazi militia movement in the Arizona desert.

An escalation of civilian border watches have taken root in Arizona in recent years, including the Minutemen movement. Various groups patrol the desert on foot, horseback and in airplanes and report suspicious activity to the Border Patrol, and generally, they have not caused problems for law enforcement.

Local law enforcement authorities are nervous given that these militias are heavily armed and identifies with the National Socialist Movement, an organization that believes only non-Jewish, white heterosexuals should be American citizens and that everyone who isn't white should leave the country 'peacefully or by force.'

They are outfitted with military fatigues, body armor and gas masks, and carry assault rifles. They also identify with the National Socialist Movement. 'These are people who wear swastikas on their sleeves,' said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project. MORE