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Two Illegal Immigrants Win Arizona Ranch in Court Fight
The New York Times ^ | 08/19/05 | Andrew Pollack

Posted on 08/19/2005 9:25:31 AM PDT by RoyalsFan

By ANDREW POLLACK Published: August 19, 2005 DOUGLAS, Ariz., Aug. 18 - Spent shells litter the ground at what is left of the firing range, and camouflage outfits still hang in a storeroom. Just a few months ago, this ranch was known as Camp Thunderbird, the headquarters of a paramilitary group that promised to use force to keep illegal immigrants from sneaking across the border with Mexico.

Now, in a turnabout, the 70-acre property about two miles from the border is being given to two immigrants whom the group caught trying to enter the United States illegally.

The land transfer is being made to satisfy judgments in a lawsuit in which the immigrants had said that Casey Nethercott, the owner of the ranch and a former leader of the vigilante group Ranch Rescue, had harmed them.

"Certainly it's poetic justice that these undocumented workers own this land," said Morris S. Dees Jr., co-founder and chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., which represented the immigrants in their lawsuit.

Mr. Dees said the loss of the ranch would "send a pretty important message to those who come to the border to use violence."

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: banglist; civilwarii; constitutionlist; cw2; govwatch; illegalalien; invasion; judicialactivism; landgrab; ranchrescue; unbelieveable
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Un-fricking-believeable!
1 posted on 08/19/2005 9:25:32 AM PDT by RoyalsFan
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To: RoyalsFan

Dupe.


2 posted on 08/19/2005 9:26:07 AM PDT by moehoward
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To: moehoward

Who was the Judge...Greer?


3 posted on 08/19/2005 9:26:53 AM PDT by freepertoo
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To: freepertoo

Holy S@#$


4 posted on 08/19/2005 9:28:21 AM PDT by vrwc0915
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To: RoyalsFan

This guy better apeal this, the Illegals have no standing here what so ever. New way to own land, sneak across the border and have a judge take land away from a citizen and give it to an ILLEGAL alien. We need to take some drastic action on judges like this.


5 posted on 08/19/2005 9:29:06 AM PDT by calex59 (If you have to take me apart to get me there, then I don't want to go!)
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To: HiJinx; Travis McGee

Ping!


6 posted on 08/19/2005 9:29:31 AM PDT by RoyalsFan (Freepmail me if you want on my Kansas City Royals ping list)
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To: calex59

On the other hand, this article is from the New York slimes and may be entirely false or large parts of it anyway. It may be a made up story altogether.


7 posted on 08/19/2005 9:30:08 AM PDT by calex59 (If you have to take me apart to get me there, then I don't want to go!)
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To: calex59

We need to take some drastic action on Morris Dees and the SPLC.


8 posted on 08/19/2005 9:31:01 AM PDT by DaiHuy (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: RoyalsFan

Only one comment:

One man says to a second man: "Do you believe in the First Amendment freedom of speech?"

The second man says: "Of course I do."

The first man then asks: "Do you believe in the Second Amendment freedom to bear arms?"

The second man replies: "No, I don't."

The first man insists: "Then shut up!"

The moral of the story is: you can have your rights, but you have to protect and defend them, too.


9 posted on 08/19/2005 9:31:13 AM PDT by hombre_sincero
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This needs to be appealed, and these two need to be deported, along with Mr. Dees (the child pervert.)


10 posted on 08/19/2005 9:31:44 AM PDT by RoyalsFan (Freepmail me if you want on my Kansas City Royals ping list)
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To: calex59

I saw this in Fox News this morning. I couldn't believe it. Surely, this will be overturned on appeal.


11 posted on 08/19/2005 9:32:09 AM PDT by Aggie Mama
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Dupe thread same title over here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1466446/posts


13 posted on 08/19/2005 9:34:05 AM PDT by moehoward
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The surrender of the ranch comes as the governors of Arizona and New Mexico have declared a state of emergency because of the influx of illegal immigrants and related crime along the border.

This handout won’t help much.
14 posted on 08/19/2005 9:34:48 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: RoyalsFan
I don't know what everyone is upset about.

All someone has to do is demonstrate they can get more tax revenue for the land vis-a-vis Kelo v New London.

15 posted on 08/19/2005 9:36:42 AM PDT by krazyrep
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To: DaiHuy

here is just a few of their vaunted efforts to allow the poor oppressed masses access to our courts and country.

http://www.splcenter.org/legal/docket/docket.jsp?sortID=4&agendaID=4


16 posted on 08/19/2005 9:37:02 AM PDT by DaiHuy (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: RoyalsFan

The stampeding sound you're about to hear is from the throngs of illegals who just found a way to beat the system. Show up on a property, get yourself roughed up, hire a lawyer. This is just....I'm speechless.


17 posted on 08/19/2005 9:38:26 AM PDT by Icthus
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All someone has to do is demonstrate they can get more tax revenue for the land vis-a-vis Kelo v New London.

Maybe thats the real plan here. The illegals, who now own a sizable and likely valuable piece of property will not be able to pay the taxes and the county seizes it, sells it, and gets the cash.

18 posted on 08/19/2005 9:40:10 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Icthus

All your ranch are belong to us...
amigo!


19 posted on 08/19/2005 9:41:09 AM PDT by Muzzle_em (I'm an island awash in a sea of stupidity)
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To: Muzzle_em

LOL!


20 posted on 08/19/2005 9:41:44 AM PDT by Icthus
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