 Roger Barnett and his brother Brent |
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 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.
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 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.
“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.”
Good enough for me.
Mr Fusion,
Thank you, you handled that with more patience than I would have.
Here, I have the catch all link:
http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/
Also, I am a windows users, so I don’t click on tinyurl links. Plus deep links break this forum.
But none the less, if you weren’t calling BS on a story that conflates things like… Did these 16 migrant workers break into his house? Were these 16 people illegals? Were they even on his property? All questions you can gleam from the OP, that the article never answers, the problem is yours, and not mine.
And I absolutely refuse to be nice, pleasant or even mildly helpful to people who will jump in and defend an openly racist prick like Roger Barnette.
I could have safely used much more profound invective. For example, I could have called you racist. But I didn’t think you guys racist. Only, misinformed by ignorance, a moron, or organically, a retard.
#80
Misread one of his posts, wrong end of the stick.,
As for the hamburgers….?
#82, jim,
No problem,
Hamburg? see post #1 & 3.
welcome to the liberal future of america
What I don’t understand is why do we have to deport illegal immigrants to the country of their origin. There are some very sparsely populated Arctic Islands available with some rather poorly fed Polar Bears on them. When word gets around, end of problem! There would be an exodus from the USofA to the point of a dire employment problem in the lowly paid undesirable service and agricultural jobs! It might go a long way towards solving part of the recession.
I think these people have NO civil rights, they should be thrown in jail and deported for entering the country illegally.