[Montfort]

The American dream. Commit a crime. Then someone responding to your crime overreacts and handles you in such a way as to make a suit possible, and then you hire a lawyer on contingency and take everything from the person who overreacted.

Who ever said crime doesn't pay.

[Montfort]

Sorry. No contingency fee here, probably.

[untrained skeptic]

"The American dream. Commit a crime. Then someone responding to your crime overreacts and handles you in such a way as to make a suit possible, and then you hire a lawyer on contingency and take everything from the person who overreacted."

He did just overreact. He assaulted the two immigrants who had entered illegally.

The immigrants have applied for asylum. I have no idea if they'll be granted asylum or not, but if they are, they will be allowed to stay.

I really don't have any sympathy for the idiot. He's a felon, so he's not allowed to be carrying a firearm. He and his friend physically restrain suspected illegal immigrants, and whack at least one on the head, allegedly with a handgun.

They then let the immigrants go, because they obviously couldn't just turn them over to the police, because the idiot was obviously committing a felony by having a firearm while being a felon.

Instead of just calling the border patrol, he incriminated himself by having a firearm, assaulted the immigrants, and then didn't turn the immigrants over to the authorities in an attempt to hide his own criminal acts.

Before someone gets upset by me referring to them as immigrants rather than illegal immigrants, I'm doing so because they are currently legally in the country until their request for asylum is processed.

I'm worried about the message this might send to other illegal immigrants, but it looks like justice was served in this particular case.