In years of doing this work, Foley said he’s never been shot at. He said people usually just surrender and drop their cargo or run back toward Mexico.
Foley said he started doing this work after the 2008 financial crisis. He’d been making a decent living as a construction-crew supervisor, but left when work dried up and his salary collapsed.
He sold his home, his possessions, and now lives in ramshackle digs near the border, collecting donations, doing work he says the U.S. government should be doing.
He is deeply, bitterly anti-government. His scorn extends to the Border Patrol, which he
