Sadly, there’s a lesson here. Just as with endangered species...
“Shoot, shovel, and shut up.”
A $78,000.00 judgement precident is pretty strong motivator for other folks to do just that in the future.
Unintended consequences, people.
As one who lived there, in neighboring Santa Cruz county, the three ‘S’ rule is good in theory but something of a challenge in real life. We saw groups of illegals almost daily, ranging up to 70 or more at a time. While we had sufficient armament, we did not have enough time to get them all concealed. We lived on a rather remote ranch and had the Border Patrol on cell phone speed dial (no land line to the ranch) so we could let them know another batch was on hand to collect. Their usual response time was about an hour. We do not miss that aspect of life in southern Arizona at all, though on some of our colder winter days here in ND we sometimes fondly recall the warmth.