Feds Say Tennessee ‘Sniper’ Planned to Kill Migrants at the Border

A Tennessee man who allegedly said he wanted to kill migrants at the border was arrested by the FBI on Monday, according to a federal criminal complaint.

The man schemed to bring explosives and sniper rifles down south to defend against a purported migrant “invasion,” telling undercover federal agents that “patriots are going to rise up” and he was going to “stir up the hornet’s nest,” federal prosecutors wrote.

Paul Faye, 55, was charged with a single count of possession of an unregistered firearm after attempting to sell an agent an illegal suppressor, according to the complaint, first reported on Tuesday by Seamus Hughes of Court Watch.

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