The National Socialist Movement identifies is a white supremacist organization, which advocates for racial segregation, nationalism, the deportation of immigrant populations and what they call "conservative family values." While officials within the organization decline to report actual membership numbers because they say they fear their size would draw unwanted scrutiny from authorities, they have chapters throughout the country, and hold rallies, demonstrations, banquets, protests and “border patrols” from Arizona, to Nebraska and Ohio to Florida, as well as major cities such as Los Angeles and New York.
Border Security is a major issue for the NSM, and members regularly travel to the US border with Mexico, heavily armed, to “patrol” in hopes of attacking immigrants while crossing into the US. Jeff Hall, a plumber and regional leader of the Southwest Chapter of the NSM based in Riverside California, frequently organized these trips, where a mix of war veterans, ex-cons, and civilian NSM members would don military fatigues and automatic weapons to hike through border crossing areas in hopes of intercepting a would be immigrant.
Jeff Hall was shot and killed while sleeping on the couch by his 10 year old son in their Riverside home on May 1, 2011.
A year later, another NSM affiliate and sometimes leader JT Ready killed his girlfriend, her two year old daughter, her adult daughter and her boyfriend, before turning his gun on himself. A few months before he was implicated in the deaths of two men on the border in Arizona.
Norm, another Southern Californian NSM member committed suicide in the same year.
April 17th, 2010, Los Angeles, CA. The day before an NSM rally at city hall, 17 year old member Mariah, and her boyfriend, also a member, arrive at the meeting place for the group, a Motel 6th just south of the city. The National Socialist Movement, an American Neo Nazi group with members across the country, staged a rally to protest the presence of immigrants, specifically from Mexico, at City Hall in Los Angeles, California, April 17th, 2010.
August 27th, 2010, ARIVACA, AZ. A plastic rosary hangs in a tree in the national park near the NSM border patrol's base camp.
June 5th, 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada. Onlookers watch as NSM members march towards the Mexican Embassy in downtown Las Vegas.
August 27th, 2010, ARIVACA, AZ. Tow trucks, onlookers and milita members gather at the site where a road washed out near the NSM's base camp.
June 5th, 2010, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA. Cory wears a helmet and NSM shield at a rally to protest immigration in front of the Mexican Consulate of Las Vegas, Nevada on June 5th, 2010.
August 27th, 2010, ARIVACA, AZ. Cory and 3 other young NSM members pile into a pickup truck headed from the base camp in Buenos Aires National Park to a night patrol at Ruby Road.
August 27th, 2010, ARIVACA, AZ. During a border patrol, a man in fatigues investigates a hole in the ground near Ruby Road.
August 26th, 2010, ARIVACA, AZ. Norm, an NSM member, prepares a machine gun and a machete for a night patrol in a closed national park.
June 6th, 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada. JT Ready (right) asks a young man to pose with him making a black power fist. He explains that 'it all about pride for both races."
June 5th, 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada. Onlookers watch as NSM members get into a fight with a group of young men on the Las Vegas strip who were angered when they saw their swastika flags and Hitler T Shirts.
April 17th, 2010, Los Angeles, CA. NSM members attempt to jump start a rental car while leaving the rally at city hall under a hail of cinder blocks and glass bottles thrown by counter protesters. The National Socialist Movement, an American Neo Nazi group with members across the country, staged a rally to protest the presence of immigrants, specifically from Mexico, at City Hall in Los Angeles, California, April 17th, 2010. The NSM, who's membership is on the rise in the United States, stands on a platform of racial segregation, the deportation of non-white immigrant populations within the U.S., and conservative family values. Members from New York, California, Arizona, Texas, North Dakota, Oregon, Iowa, the UK and Hungary were present at this event.
April 17th, 2010, Los Angeles, CA. Arianna, 17, the head of the NSM's Youth Chapter, prepares for the NSM's annual banquet in an imitation Hitler Youth uniform.The National Socialist Movement, an American Neo Nazi group with members across the country, staged a rally to protest the presence of immigrants, specifically from Mexico, at City Hall in Los Angeles, California, April 17th, 2010.
August 27th, 2010, ARIVACA, AZ. Jeff hall uses a flashlight to check his map during a night time border patrol.
August 28th, 2010, ARIVACA, AZ. Jeff Hall helps a fellow border patrol volunteer to cross a swollen river during patrol.
April 17th, 2010, Los Angeles, CA. A guest speaker for the NSM salutes counter protesters who lobbed bricks and bottles over a fence at him, before leaving in his cadillac. The National Socialist Movement, an American Neo Nazi group with members across the country, staged a rally to protest the presence of immigrants, specifically from Mexico, at City Hall in Los Angeles, California, April 17th, 2010.
August 27th, 2010, ARIVACA, AZ. A young NSM member wears a helmet while Jeff demonstrates how to set up a "listening post" near base camp.
August 27th, 2010, ARIVACA, AZ. On the morning of the 27th, Harry (center, helmet, M4) arrived with a female companion, the only woman who appeared at the camp, and their dog, Bailey. They told Jeff (left) stories of having found 2 illegal immigrants in a near by town that morning, and turned them over to border patrol.
June 5th, 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada. NSM members get into a fight with a group of young men on the Las Vegas strip who were angered when they saw their swastika flags and Hitler T Shirts.
August 27th, 2010, ARIVACA, AZ. Jeff Hall on a night patrol near Ruby Road in a closed national park on the border with Mexico.