Rancher On Trial After Stopping Illegals On His Property

Funny how all illegal entries went sky high during the Republican 8 years in power. People forget Jeb Bush's wifes father was a illegal immigrant, so bush was looking out for family. Not that I approve of Obama either. Bush and Obama are opposite sides of the same ugly coin. The only difference is each side has it's own group of brain washed idiots supporting every move blindly.
 
This has less to do with liberalism and more to do with the globalist agenda. Creating a world without borders is a major step in the formation of a 2-class system.

As a result, the greater efficiencies will only benefit the globalist assholes who are grandfathered in.
 
Did I read that right, he has turned over 12,000 in 10 years??!?
One person? How the heck does he find time to farm, for a start. Those are crazy figures.
Have to wonder, if it wasn't a set-up of some sort. That's a lot of mexicans who would have heard of his efforts there.
 
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Funny how all illegal entries went sky high during the Republican 8 years in power. People forget Jeb Bush's wifes father was a illegal immigrant, so bush was looking out for family. Not that I approve of Obama either. Bush and Obama are opposite sides of the same ugly coin. The only difference is each side has it's own group of brain washed idiots supporting every move blindly.
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Bush and McCain received bitter criticism from their own party over this. Didn't matter. They were taking their orders from business interests. Party insiders were also afraid of alienating the growing hsipanic vote.
 
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Did I read that right, he has turned over 12,000 in 10 years??!?
One person? How the heck does he find time to farm, for a start. Those are crazy figures.
Have to wonder, if it wasn't a set-up of some sort. That's a lot of mexicans who would have heard of his efforts there.
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I'm sure you're right. This "mexican american legal defense fund" is a far left immigrant "rights" group, no doubt supported by mexicans who profit from an open border. I would be shocked if they hadn't targeted this guy. As i said before, this is not the first case that has been filed against a rancher with the intent of getting his property over trumped up charges. Pretty simple really. Just get some illegals to say he abused them. get it in front of a liberal judge, who will let it go to a jury. The jury will be disposed to hate a white rancher and believe other mexicans, and it's not like they have a high regard for the law in the first place. Then issue some press releases and get CBS to do a story about how the poor mexicans finally got justice.
 
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Did I read that right, he has turned over 12,000 in 10 years??!?
One person? How the heck does he find time to farm, for a start. Those are crazy figures.
Have to wonder, if it wasn't a set-up of some sort. That's a lot of mexicans who would have heard of his efforts there.
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Interesting case;
i dont have all the facts, but certain patterns are repeating here.

As the article says, he had a deputy job with the local sheriff, both are being sued. Sounds about right,[12k in 10 years] usually the ranch owner or manager, manages, not branding the cows........AZ sheriff & ranch owner may win again.

Sounds like a skunk lawyer trying to steal $32 million dollars;
Fox & friends noted [suprise, suprise] the AZ ranch is worth $34 million. I hope the water faucet the rancher installed is not used agaist him [sounds like rancher was trying to be fair]] Dont know if those Mexicans are needed for carrot harvest, most Americans dont want that work.

Skunk lawyers like the fact, many people do not like to fight a skunk.LOL:D However i saw a creation TV program;
a night owl likes to rip skunks to pieces, then eat them, skunk scent & all.:D
 
....First, kill all Lawyers...


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This is the kind of thing that makes my blood boil. There was another case like this a couple of years ago. They claimed a rancher roughed up some illegals he caught trespassing, and a jury awaded them an outrageous amountof money. They ended up getting his family ranch.

Don' think thi sis just a border issue. When the urban riots come, do you really think former ACORN activist obama will send out the National Guard to protect rich white people? Use a baseball bat on some thugs trying to steal your car or break inot your house and you could easily find yourself in the same spot as this guy.

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16 illegals sue Arizona rancher
Claim violation of rights as they crossed his land
Jerry Seper (Contact)
Monday, February 9, 2009

An Arizona man who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal immigrants from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Roger Barnett, 64, began rounding up illegal immigrants in 1998 and turning them over to the U.S. Border Patrol, he said, after they destroyed his property, killed his calves and broke into his home.

His Cross Rail Ranch near Douglas, Ariz., is known by federal and county law enforcement authorities as "the avenue of choice" for immigrants seeking to enter the United States illegally.

Trial continues Monday in the federal lawsuit, which seeks $32 million in actual and punitive damages for civil rights violations, the infliction of emotional distress and other crimes. Also named are Mr. Barnett's wife, Barbara, his brother, Donald, and Larry Dever, sheriff in Cochise County, Ariz., where the Barnetts live. The civil trial is expected to continue until Friday.

The lawsuit is based on a March 7, 2004, incident in a dry wash on the 22,000-acre ranch, when he approached a group of illegal immigrants while carrying a gun and accompanied by a large dog.

Attorneys for the immigrants - five women and 11 men who were trying to cross illegally into the United States - have accused Mr. Barnett of holding the group captive at gunpoint, threatening to turn his dog loose on them and saying he would shoot anyone who tried to escape.

The immigrants are represented at trial by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), which also charged that Sheriff Dever did nothing to prevent Mr. Barnett from holding their clients at "gunpoint, yelling obscenities at them and kicking one of the women."

In the lawsuit, MALDEF said Mr. Barnett approached the group as the immigrants moved through his property, and that he was carrying a pistol and threatening them in English and Spanish. At one point, it said, Mr. Barnett's dog barked at several of the women and he yelled at them in Spanish, "My dog is hungry and he's hungry for buttocks."

The lawsuit said he then called his wife and two Border Patrol agents arrived at the site. It also said Mr. Barnett acknowledged that he had turned over 12,000 illegal immigrants to the Border Patrol since 1998.

In March, U.S. District Judge John Roll rejected a motion by Mr. Barnett to have the charges dropped, ruling there was sufficient evidence to allow the matter to be presented to a jury. Mr. Barnett's attorney, David Hardy, had argued that illegal immigrants did not have the same rights as U.S. citizens.

Mr. Barnett told The Washington Times in a 2002 interview that he began rounding up illegal immigrants after they started to vandalize his property, northeast of Douglas along Arizona Highway 80. He said the immigrants tore up water pumps, killed calves, destroyed fences and gates, stole trucks and broke into his home.

Some of his cattle died from ingesting the plastic bottles left behind by the immigrants, he said, adding that he installed a faucet on an 8,000-gallon water tank so the immigrants would stop damaging the tank to get water.

Mr. Barnett said some of the ranch´s established immigrant trails were littered with trash 10 inches deep, including human waste, used toilet paper, soiled diapers, cigarette packs, clothes, backpacks, empty 1-gallon water bottles, chewing-gum wrappers and aluminum foil - which supposedly is used to pack the drugs the immigrant smugglers give their "clients" to keep them running.

He said he carried a pistol during his searches for the immigrants and had a rifle in his truck "for protection" against immigrant and drug smugglers, who often are armed.


A former Cochise County sheriff´s deputy who later was successful in the towing and propane business, Mr. Barnett spent $30,000 on electronic sensors, which he has hidden along established trails on his ranch. He searches the ranch for illegal immigrants in a pickup truck, dressed in a green shirt and camouflage hat, with his handgun and rifle, high-powered binoculars and a walkie-talkie.

His sprawling ranch became an illegal-immigration highway when the Border Patrol diverted its attention to several border towns in an effort to take control of the established ports of entry. That effort moved the illegal immigrants to the remote areas of the border, including the Cross Rail Ranch.

"This is my land. I´m the victim here," Mr. Barnett said. "When someone´s home and loved ones are in jeopardy and the government seemingly can´t do anything about it, I feel justified in taking matters into my own hands. And I always watch my back."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/09/16-illegals-sue-arizona-rancher/
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Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

This is the kind of thing that makes my blood boil. There was another case like this a couple of years ago. They claimed a rancher roughed up some illegals he caught trespassing, and a jury awaded them an outrageous amountof money. They ended up getting his family ranch.

Don' think thi sis just a border issue. When the urban riots come, do you really think former ACORN activist obama will send out the National Guard to protect rich white people? Use a baseball bat on some thugs trying to steal your car or break inot your house and you could easily find yourself in the same spot as this guy.

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16 illegals sue Arizona rancher
Claim violation of rights as they crossed his land
Jerry Seper (Contact)
Monday, February 9, 2009

An Arizona man who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal immigrants from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Roger Barnett, 64, began rounding up illegal immigrants in 1998 and turning them over to the U.S. Border Patrol, he said, after they destroyed his property, killed his calves and broke into his home.

His Cross Rail Ranch near Douglas, Ariz., is known by federal and county law enforcement authorities as "the avenue of choice" for immigrants seeking to enter the United States illegally.

Trial continues Monday in the federal lawsuit, which seeks $32 million in actual and punitive damages for civil rights violations, the infliction of emotional distress and other crimes. Also named are Mr. Barnett's wife, Barbara, his brother, Donald, and Larry Dever, sheriff in Cochise County, Ariz., where the Barnetts live. The civil trial is expected to continue until Friday.

The lawsuit is based on a March 7, 2004, incident in a dry wash on the 22,000-acre ranch, when he approached a group of illegal immigrants while carrying a gun and accompanied by a large dog.

Attorneys for the immigrants - five women and 11 men who were trying to cross illegally into the United States - have accused Mr. Barnett of holding the group captive at gunpoint, threatening to turn his dog loose on them and saying he would shoot anyone who tried to escape.

The immigrants are represented at trial by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), which also charged that Sheriff Dever did nothing to prevent Mr. Barnett from holding their clients at "gunpoint, yelling obscenities at them and kicking one of the women."

In the lawsuit, MALDEF said Mr. Barnett approached the group as the immigrants moved through his property, and that he was carrying a pistol and threatening them in English and Spanish. At one point, it said, Mr. Barnett's dog barked at several of the women and he yelled at them in Spanish, "My dog is hungry and he's hungry for buttocks."

The lawsuit said he then called his wife and two Border Patrol agents arrived at the site. It also said Mr. Barnett acknowledged that he had turned over 12,000 illegal immigrants to the Border Patrol since 1998.

In March, U.S. District Judge John Roll rejected a motion by Mr. Barnett to have the charges dropped, ruling there was sufficient evidence to allow the matter to be presented to a jury. Mr. Barnett's attorney, David Hardy, had argued that illegal immigrants did not have the same rights as U.S. citizens.

Mr. Barnett told The Washington Times in a 2002 interview that he began rounding up illegal immigrants after they started to vandalize his property, northeast of Douglas along Arizona Highway 80. He said the immigrants tore up water pumps, killed calves, destroyed fences and gates, stole trucks and broke into his home.

Some of his cattle died from ingesting the plastic bottles left behind by the immigrants, he said, adding that he installed a faucet on an 8,000-gallon water tank so the immigrants would stop damaging the tank to get water.

Mr. Barnett said some of the ranch´s established immigrant trails were littered with trash 10 inches deep, including human waste, used toilet paper, soiled diapers, cigarette packs, clothes, backpacks, empty 1-gallon water bottles, chewing-gum wrappers and aluminum foil - which supposedly is used to pack the drugs the immigrant smugglers give their "clients" to keep them running.

He said he carried a pistol during his searches for the immigrants and had a rifle in his truck "for protection" against immigrant and drug smugglers, who often are armed.


A former Cochise County sheriff´s deputy who later was successful in the towing and propane business, Mr. Barnett spent $30,000 on electronic sensors, which he has hidden along established trails on his ranch. He searches the ranch for illegal immigrants in a pickup truck, dressed in a green shirt and camouflage hat, with his handgun and rifle, high-powered binoculars and a walkie-talkie.

His sprawling ranch became an illegal-immigration highway when the Border Patrol diverted its attention to several border towns in an effort to take control of the established ports of entry. That effort moved the illegal immigrants to the remote areas of the border, including the Cross Rail Ranch.

"This is my land. I´m the victim here," Mr. Barnett said. "When someone´s home and loved ones are in jeopardy and the government seemingly can´t do anything about it, I feel justified in taking matters into my own hands. And I always watch my back."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/09/16-illegals-sue-arizona-rancher/
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why don't you let the law handle it? don't you have any faith in your system? :eek:
 
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