A Bronx first responder is not content to spend his vacations relaxing — instead, he patrols the Mexican border with a heavily armed vigilante group.
“Our main goal is to stop narcotics trafficking,” said FDNY emergency medical technician Andy Poliakoff, whose time off is spent in the desolate Sonoran Desert hunting for Mexican drug runners.
Poliakoff said the people he catches sneaking over the border are not looking for work.
“We don’t see regular undocumented people,” he said. “If people are trying to come over for a better life, they usually don’t use that area,” he said.
“It’s too difficult to traverse.”