Murder at America's Border: The Story of an Anti-Immigration Vigilante 

Now that she's in prison she can finally get close to some of those Cartel members she's so anxious to deal with.

She said she'd rather die than live a boring life, watching TV, and now she's spending the rest of her life in a jail cell.

Starting her excuse with "I'm in orphan," automatically says: :feel sorry for me, I've not been raised right". So pathetic.

Don’t confuse hatred with patriotism.

Let’s say these people were drug dealers who engaged in illegal immigration by hiding people. Even if we concede this point the fact that they shot a 9 year old child blows all their excuses out of the water. How much does she really believe in her cause if she denies the very actions they took to further their cause. She is not a patriot she is a deluded power hungry person who masked her evil in a shroud of patriotism.

The sheer irony of claiming to fight drug trafficking and then being an addict herself. This woman was literally caught stealing pain meds from an associate’s wife.

Lord the pure ignorance from these people🤦🤦🤦. "I had nothing to do with it but I had the family's valuables". Self defense against a family who were in their OWN home and a 9 yr old 🤔🤔.

The only hero I see in this video is the brave woman that survived being shot.

Pure evil. The saddest part is I never heard about this until now

Imagine killing a child and have the audacity to claim it's because you love your country.

I just can’t understand the hatred people have about another person’s ethnicity. I will never understand it.

It's amazing how a woman of EUROPEAN descent and all her counterparts are fighting to keep other immigrants out of north America

Never call this women a patriot

They only attack people who can't fight back..would have loved for her to attack an actual cartel house.

Imagine being so close minded and bored in life that you spend your energy fighting and profiling people they don't know anything about

Wow this is good journalism... shes such a liar and the fact that the interviewer can keep her cool is... wow

killing a child is despicable

Disgusting. Murdering children over a piece of land and ideals. Wow. That is about as low as you can get as a human being. This is why I always say. "Wether ideal or bowel based, almost all movement's belong in toilets."

Ask the native Americans how they feel about immigrants

The old man is involved, "I hardly knew her" yet you let her live on your land and she calls you asking for help for a gunshot wound. The female with him also knows more than she is saying her discomfort at being on camera is obvious. They both have blood on their hands.

Why isn't this classified as terrorism?

"I had nothing to do with it." While holding all of a dead family's valuables lol

You can clearly and honestly see the evil in this creature's eyes.

Absolutely heartbreaking when Gina asks the 911 operator "ma'am, what am I going to do now?".

Her death sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2017. She’s done... good riddance!

Shawna Forde received the death penalty. Jason Eugene Bush received the death penalty. Albert Gaxiola was sentenced to life without parole plus 54 years

What’s so patriotic about killing a 9 year old? I always said that if you’re really worried about the “drug trafficking” you’d start right at home because the U.S is probably up there being the largest consumer for drugs. These people are just also going after the drugs! For the money. The Cartals clearly aren’t bothered by these people... they would’ve had their head by now if they wanted to.

I got a feeling her man left her for a pretty latina.

This comments prove that people are taught to hate down rather than up smh. People hate the poor immigrant rather than the rich and powerful. Full blown propaganda right there. People thinking they know the truth, yet they fall for the classic divide and conquer.

"Protecting their country?!" - very brave when shooting unarmed people and children but immediately flee when people can fight back!

The old man is not as squeaky clean as he wants to portray.

Lmao Burn at 25:24 “She was a short fat woman.” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Bruh imagine getting roasted by the victim to the 911 operator right after you botched an execution. 😭😭😭😭😭😭

I guarantee that ms13 never attacked her... If they truly took her as a threat she wouldn't have been seen alive again..

"Should be willing to die for his Country..." Hmmm, why not join our Military then?

I love the older guy saying he only met her once and then 5 minutes later inadvertently admitting that she had been living in a trailer on his property.

Minutemen is a nickname given to them by their wife and girlfriends.

Self defense is fine. This was NOT self defense.

I heard some "patriots" that love this country love guns and camo uniforms. But when they was called to serve on the military they got balls diseases and bones malformations if you know what I mean!

She said she'd never go to bed by 10:00 p.m. but I guarantee she's doing exactly that in prison😂

The cat lady with a mullet doesn't represent my state..

Man this lady is so guilty. Also the old man 👴 knows way more than he’s letting on

"Forde had several run-ins with law enforcement prior to her arrest for the double murder. Court records show that she served time in juvenile lock-ups for repeated convictions involving theft, burglary, and prostitution. Forde had been married four times. In 1989, a male friend sought court protection from her, claiming that she had physically attacked him and threatened to hurt herself with a knife. In 2007, she was charged with theft." Why do all these people we always see shouting about patriotism are always coming from dark and troubled pasts? Do they use it as something to hold on to or because no one else wants them.

So you can just fly out to Arizona & snoop around acting like you’re a boarder patrol agent? Jesus

The OG Minute Men fought off the entire fully armed British Army , you attack unarmed Christian immigrants mostly fleeing hardship.

Most unpatriotic woman. Period.

She is clinically psychopathic. For sure.

I like how at the beginning it shows Shawna's timeline of life events, year and what she was doing. It said orphan then scanned over the prostitution part. The interviewer said' "a handful of arrests." PROSTITUTION. When she was a teenager, going through her 20s, 30s. If you were listening and not watching it you would not know that. Feel like that interviewer should had listed the exact thing she was arrested for and the year. Prior arrests is extremely important in this. I mean wtf. Edit: Shawna shown in that video footage and her mugshot she is OBVIOUSLY on the devil's icecream. (Don't want my comment hidden or deleted.) How can anyone say she us innocent. They arrested her with Gina's wedsing ring and a bag of her jewelry. She still had the phone with messages about the murder on her. You can see it in her eyes she ain't right. She has that same look kimberely Kessler has. And that bee is a freaking whack job if ever there was!

Imagine these fools actually trying to rob a cartel. I hope they get beat up everyday in prison for murdering that little girl and her father.

The amount of hatred that exists in these ppl. Pure evil 😞

When you’re in a place with a Hispanic name (Arivaca, Arizona) and you’re an Anglo Saxon that calls Hispanics invaders.

Hmmm I wonder why Fox never covered this..

One American historical fact is that a person with a mullet has no credibility unless they're Theo Von.

Theres a huge difference between being a patriot and being a nationalist and these people are far from patriots.

Holy shit, Arivaca... Man I have some stories about this small town. When I was 15 I was forced to stay at an Arivaca Boys Ranch summer of 2010. The first day I got there I was coming down from crystal and opiates and was madly in love with a girl so I knew I would immediately escape. I started talking to people quickly and by dinner time I had 3 other kids that would run away with me and 1 kid to distract the security. I learned that Mexico was right behind the mountains and Tuscon was the closest city about 50 miles away. No one had ever successfully escaped and didn't end up back at the ranch. As the sun started to set we prepared by dressing up heavily and stuffing snacks and water into our jackets. We stealthily walked out of our rooms and walked right off the property through the back near some horse stalls. After about 10 minutes we see 2 of the security/workers walking our way, once they saw us they started running and we all bolted. I'm very fast and within minutes of non stop sprinting I was all alone in the Arizona desert. The houses and ranches in this part of Arivaca are few and far in between. The roads all had the 3 line barbwire along side of them and every once in awhile a car would drive by, making me go between the wire whenever I was walking on the road. Most of the cars were border patrol and I'm sure the others was the ranch looking for me. At one point a car was getting close and I ran and hid in bushes by a small trailer home. The car drives by, but the door of the trailer opens and I hear an older man shout. Shortly after that he fired a shotgun into the sky (I think it was too the sky) and my heart dropped as I became completely frozen. After laying still for what may have been 15-20 minutes I slowly move out of the bush and start running back into the open desert. I continue to walk and eventually stumble upon a small house playing Mexican music that I could hear. I figured that since I'm part Hispanic and look Mexican they would help me out. I walk up to their door and knock, a little girl answered and called for her mom. The mom was the cook at the ranch! Her name was Conchita, such a sweet lady, but I immediately ran as soon as I saw her. I needed to figure out what to do, I couldn't just walk around aimlessly all night. I can see a couple street lights and lights from homes in the distance, it was an area with the highest concentration of people in Arivaca, but it was about 5 miles away. I decide to head to the orange street light I saw in the distance, constantly ducking through barbwire, cutting myself on the wire, hearing rattlesnakes, filling up my canteen with hoses from the random trailers I would stumble upon, and the whole time sweating out all of the drugs I was using up until that day. My adrenaline was pumping for hours and turned a horrible situation into an adventure. It's late at night now and I left around 7pm, I had been alone in the desert for hours, and I was getting close to that streetlight. There were more trailer homes in this area and I was exhausted with no water so I started going up to doors again. The first one was an older white man with a Hispanic looking wife. I don't remember what I said, just him saying that he was going to call border patrol so I ran off. Luckily the next trailer I tried was home to the nicest people in the whole town. An old white man opens the door and I tell him that I was headed to Tuscon, but needed water and food. His wife walks up behind him and they let me in. They were very kind to me, didn't really ask questions, and gave me a ham sandwich, gatorade, water, and cigarettes. He told me I could sleep in their little RV out back. I was so surprised to find such hospitality here. We start talking and he tells me about this family that was crossing that he saved and helped out. One night he heard the cries of a little girl and went outside to see what was going on. It was a family and the young daughter had broken her foot. He invited them all into his home, fed them, and let them stay for a few days until they were able to make the journey out. In Arivaca there is only one road out with a border checkpoint, so you must walk for many miles until you can get picked up. Hearing this story really touched my heart and I end up telling him the truth, he said that the family still calls him every now and then to update him on how they're doing. I decided to tell him the truth that it was my first day at the boys ranch and I ran away, he just laughed and we kept smoking. He lets me use his phone and I call my girl and my aunty. My aunty was very cool and always helped me out, but she couldn't risk driving to Arizona and get arrested for picking me up at the checkpoint. So, with my one option for a ride gone I end up falling asleep and calling the ranch in the morning. I write down the old mans number so I could keep in contact with him. The security pick me up and tell me that they thought I might have been dead because they heard the shotgun go off in the area I ran away from. It was fucking crazy and it was fun writing this all down and remembering that night. Arivaca is a strange place.

I’m really moved by that small town for choosing love over hate. They should be proud.

They did an interview with one of the jurors after the facts and she said what convicted Shawna for the death penalty was the crime scene photo of Brisenia - she looked like she was dressed for bed and sitting on the couch with half of her head, because she was shot at point blank... Just hearing that and typing this out was bone chilling, what if they got away with this? How many more children would they murder or families they would destroy?

You want to stop drug trafficking?... stop ✋🏽 buying drugs... just saying 🤷🏽‍♂️

Killing innocent people in their own home is not called protesting our country is called murder!!! Those murderer need be hang and not wasting our tax money to feed them in prison.

"Melissa weren't you there?".... Melissa-.......

They should televise her execution... I’ll tune in.. with popcorn.

When will people realize...the problem of drugs smuggling is due to...you guessed it AMERICAS DRUG ADDICTION. When you can stop addiction here in the USA then the cartels will soon look elsewhere to send their drugs because $$.

I honestly believe that old man knows more than what he is saying

I wish she would of found the cartel first

The glen dude is trying too hard to distance himself. Total lies.

A 9 year old dead. A father dead. A wife left too suffer. What these minute men did....no words. R.I.P.

As someone who lived not far from the World Trade Center and knew people that died it’s upsetting when people use what happened to booster their cause. None of the 9/11 highjackers came over the Mexican border. I’m all for stopping illegal immigration but only if there is an honest talk. Also when talking about drugs we need to be honest to. If Americans didn’t have a demand of illegal drugs there would be not market to smuggle into the USA.

I wore the uniform of the United States Navy for 26 years before retiring in 2006. After receiving my honorable discharge I went on to work for the government for one of the biggest navy ships builders in America. So in a sense I still serve this country. I said all that to say this. I bet not one of these so-called patriotic Americans have donned any branch of the military uniform.

17:30 Shawna: " I' m an addict" Everyone else: We know that. Enjoy now.

This is so unreal. Shawna was my landlord in Everett, WA for awhile. She owned a home with her now exhusband and they lived in a upstairs part of the duplex and my mom and I lived downstairs. I am shocked and disgusted by all of this. This was of course now a decade ago, my mother has passed since... but I knew her children, it's all so surreal and awful.

Never been so shook I'm very sad that this was even a reality

The people who did this represent a bigger problem than you actually think. Did you notice how only a very few people showed up to remember the little girls death? That says a lot about how most of them sadly really feel and believe.

I'd love to see a documentary on native Americans and their views on "modern Americans" ! 🤔

These towns don’t want militias there. All of these misinformed fools say drugs are the main reason for their backwards views. Don’t they know that we are in the midst of the largest drug epidemic in history and it was started by federally backed pharmaceutical companies. These are not patriots, they are sick people with a false sense of reality and justice. She is a murderer and she didn’t do it alone. Great documentary Vice, thank you.

She is as bad or worse than the "bad" ppl she's trying to keep out.

What’s crazy is that Trump used her exact language in his opening statement running for president.

She would never have stood a chance trying to infiltrate the cartel😂🤣

All these people are wackos. Who’s blood was it on the ground at the family’s house. If there is a DNA match and the guy is walking around with a limp he better have some answers. Sounds like an all American family that got killed. Just happened to be a brown coloured one.

killing a child? like that! I'm not really religious but we all wish that there was some retribution for people like this. Death is too kind.

Question is who is the real illegal immigrants here in United States we start from 1492?

What that group did killing that family was NOT patriotic at all!!!! Cold blooded murder is what that was!!!! I do believe we need border protection but that is definitely NOT the way to do it!!!! May that family rest in peace. The murders ROT in hell!!!!

Isn't this a hate crime?

I honestly think these people just have so much hate they have to press it on other people, I understand securing the border but murdering a child? Sorry but thier is no legitimate reason to do that that is just bat shit crazy, they have this really tough look but will wimper away when the shits are coming thier way, these type of people have no spine no base no roots whatsoever just a confused bunch

I am adamantly against the death penalty as I feel it's pointless. Having said that, I'm glad that she will never be free. A lot of these people we see are possibly redeemable under certain psychiatric care and medicine. Shawna is not one of them.

There sure are a lot of scared cowards in the minuteman

I am Mexican and I feel bad for the ones trying to cross for a better future, but I can't say I feel bad for the drug traffickers.

40 minute Video has been out for 10 minutes, yet almost all the comments are shitting on it? How can y'all know it's shit if you haven't even watched it?

the old man = completely lying

The minute mice wouldn’t even last a day against any cartels

Braveheart is literally the worst depiction of Scottish history and culture that I have ever seen in my life ... that's coming from a Scottish person, that woman should have educated herself on more than stupid, Hollywood blockbusters

Welcome to America, where we complain about racism yet we are the ones terrorizing every race and culture...

Horrible person. Horrible group that murdered and destroyed a precious family. Just a bunch of psychotic criminals. That being said, shouldn't the title have been something other than "anti-immigration"? That is Vice putting their own spin to it for their own purposes. So it is kinda like, "We're (VICE) is going give you this human, heartbreaking story, but we need you to get what message that we want you to get, out of it." Probably why you have a large number of thumbs down on this video. Sad, because this should've been about the loss of a precious family and the monsters that took them.

I'm not American but what I took away from this doc was how much more complex the issue is that how it gets portrayed on the mainstream media channels like FOX or MSNBC.

Shawna Forde had an upbringing similar to that of Charles Manson. Foster homes and jail. She murdered a 9 year old in cold blood, is straight up human garbage, was sentenced to death and the sentence was upheld in 2014.

those aren't Patriots they're rejects.

Noone: Literally Noone: Murderer: ThIs Is ShAwNa WiTh MiNuTeMeN aMeRiCaN dEfEnSe

During that phone call with Shawna from prison in which she lied through her teeth, why didnt you confront her about the victim's jewelry she had in her purse or about all the text messages she had on her phone between the other murderer?

If that family was connected to the cartel. Those people who did the home invasion would have not survived the next day

Yo, that Shana chick has the eyes. Her eyes are cold. Dang, she was on another level. That chick was and is crazy and insane. Those eyes...

I normally enjoy Vice content, but as I watch, I can't help but to see this as giving a loudspeaker to these racist border enthusiasts. You talk at one point about Shawna taking her "work," as if it was somehow something upstanding, to Arizona. I always hope to gain comprehensive knowledge of both sides of an issue I care about, but the following needs to be remembered: Just because there are two opposing arguments over an issue does not mean that they are of equal value. Nor does it mean the answer to the problem lies somewhere between these two points, or extremes. I just cannot shake the feeling that conspiracy-minded right-wingers who watch this are going to see this as the "liberal media" confirming their suspicions. It's obviously not your job as a reporter to paint parties with the brush of opinion, but the amount of time you give to these people to spout their reactionary lunacy could be cut down considerably while still communicating the story more than adequately. Anyway, I know I'm coming down pretty hard, but I enjoyed it, otherwise. It is, aside from the big gripe above, the excellent work I've come to expect from you kids at Vice.

I'm from Phoenix. 100-150 miles north of Arivaca, tucson, bisbee, nogales, etc. The people of these small towns are awesome. Yes you do meet characters like "the mayor" lol. I love the southern part of my state. I'm glad that is was mentioned that the majority of these clownish millitia groups are transplants from other places. From Other states with no connection and no knowledge of the history/culture of the border region. This was a great doc done by a great journalist highlighting the region.