border around arizona in a town of less than 100 people. i ve been called everything in the book. i ve been called a domestic extremist. reporter: the southern poverty law center says foley s group is made up of native extremists. he sees the flow of drugs, undocumented migrants and the wide open spaces of the border as the country s biggest threat. along the 2,000-mile southern border there is already 700 miles of fencing and barricades already in place. here in sass by, arizona, this steel see-through fence stretches for several miles. as you approach the end of town, it abruptly comes to an end as it stretches out into rugged, remote terrain in the arizona desert. i put the cameras about five minutes from the road. reporter: he relies on a collection of cameras he hides in the brush to catches the movements of drug smugglers. he often shares the videos and
on the ore e side a legion of border patrol agents, barricades, ground sensors are waiting, even some private citizens working on their own to stop migrants like jesus garcia from getting across. this is the scene in the matrix. reporter: in tome foley s world, the border lands are a threatening, dangerous place. this is what the world really looks like. reporter: he leads a volunteer group called arizona border recon that patrols the border around a town in arizona on the u.s.-mexico border with less than a hundred people. i ve been called everything in the book, a domestic extremist. reporter: the southern poverty law center which monitors hate group in the u.s. says foley s group is made up of, quote, native extremists. he sees the flow of drugs, undocumented migrants and the wide open spaces of the border as the country s biggest threat. along the nearly 2,000-mile u.s./southern border there is already about 700 miles of fencing and barricades already in place. here i
off with pliers and things like that, where i was thinking what the f . a lot of guys who control their hostages are saidists. reporter: rye said he was held alongside james foley. rye was released several weeks before foley s execution. rye s family reportedly paid isis a large ransom, which the u.s. government had previously discouraged american families from doing. the survivors of hostage families, there s a great deal of resentment they harbor toward the obama administration for simply not talking to isis. either directly or indirectly as many european countries have done. reporter: president obama has since changed u.s. policy, agreeing to communicate with terrorist hostage-takers but still no payments. as for jihadi john, either british or u.s. officials will say where he is. he s absolutely a high value target. we know the british government
tan going, he kept his eyes on the ground looking jihad john in the eyes he said would bring a beating. he says he was beaten anyway after the dance. then ry says they finished by threatening to cut my nose off with pliers and things like that where i was thinking what the f. the guys that run this organization, a lot of guys that control hostages. rye says he was held alongside james foley and was released in june of last year several weeks before foley s execution. rye s family paid a large ransom which the u.s. government discouraged them from doing. the survivors of american victims of isis, james folly s family, there is resentment toward the obama administration for simply not taking to isis directly or indirectly as many countries have done. president obama changed u.s.
and our journalist can go out in the field and be valued and we are respected and our government treats us with honesty and transparency. we are hearing from the family of american journalist steven as well with them saying they are relieved to know who the suspect is but they that is the first step. we want them to be convicted and spend the rest of his life in isolation. that is american justice and how the country deals with this. specificity there but the family wants more. what would that look like? i think foley s family laid it out good. there will also be more jihad johns, particularly when you say all they need as a job. we need a clear strategy to crush them. why aren t we crushing them and