Monday, February 09, 2009

16 illegal aliens sue Arizona rancher over their ‘civil rights’

Roger Barnett has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal immigrants from crossing his land in Arizona. He is now being sued by 16 Mexicans 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.

In 1998, Barnett began rounding up illegal immigrants and turning them over to the U.S. Border Patrol, after they destroyed his property, killed his calves and broke into his home. Federal and county law enforcement officials acknowledge his ranch, near Douglas, Ariz., is 'the avenue of choice' for immigrants seeking to enter the United States illegally.

The 16 illegals have sued Barnet for $32 million in actual and punitive damages. Also named are Barnett's wife, Barbara, his brother, Donald, and Larry Dever, the sheriff in Cochise County, Ariz., where the Barnetts live.

The immigrants are represented at trial by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), which charged that Sheriff Dever did nothing to prevent Barnett from holding their clients at gunpoint.

U.S. District Judge John Roll has already rejected a motion to have the charges dropped, ruling there was sufficient evidence to present the matter to a jury. Barnett's attorney, David Hardy, has argued that illegal immigrants did not have the same rights as U.S. citizens.

'This is my land. I’m the victim here,' Barnett says. '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.'

5 comments:

  1. I am with Mr. Barnett here. Eveyone in this country has the right to protect his own property. The administration of justice was a right given by U.S. Citizens to its government. When government fails in its administration, then it is time for Citizens to take back that right and start administering justice themselves.
    Sad? Yes! But government has given us no choice and has driven us back to the old "eye for an eye" mentality.

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  2. Thanks Liberals! 20 years in the Marines so that Americans can't defend their own property..

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  3. THEY ARE ILLEGAL THEY HAVE NO RIGHTS!! GET OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!!

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  4. It is a crime that an American can't defend his own property without fear of the "Law"
    Especially when he defending to prtect it from people who are committing an illegal act!!!
    WHERE'S THE JUSTICE IN THAT???

    JEAN CLEM

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