2 Illegal Immigrants Win Arizona Ranch in Court

NYTimes ^ | 8/19/05 | Andrew Pollack

[One Proud Dad]

Check this out.

[konaice]

OLD OLD OLD story.

[StrangerInParadise]

Just when you thought things couldn't possibly get any crazier.....here is proof that the guy next to you overdosed on stupid pills just today!!!

[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.

[UglyinLA]

SEAL THE BORDER!! BUILD THE FENCE !!!

[Personal Responsibility]

Sickening.

[VRWCmember]

"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.

What is "poetic" about it?

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'll break the law
And the government screws you!

Maybe it is poetic justice after all. It certainly isn't any other kind of justice.

[One Proud Dad]

I searched on "Illegal Immigrants" and "Awarded" and got no hits.

[One Proud Dad]

My family or I would render that property useless. There would be no structure or fence and maybe a chemical spill. What would they do sue or jail me?

[GrandEagle]

Morris S. Dees Jr.,
That explains it.
You have to have help to be this stupid - it is impossible to be that stupid on your own.

[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.

[ravingnutter]

It is not an old story, it is an update on an old story... the judgement was just handed down and the transfer of the land to the immigrants was just last week. Michael Savage said yesterday that from what he understands, the original land owners could not afford to fight this (and the lawyers knew that) so he is going to contact the original land owner and raise funds for an appeal.

[MaineVoter2002]

Hannity was talking about this today

[Lurking Libertarian]

so he is going to contact the original land owner and raise funds for an appeal.

He settled the case-- how can he appeal?

[Ignatius J Reilly]

Why are illegal immigrants allowed to own land in the USA??

[conservative in nyc]

It's also not the real title ("2 Illegal Immigrants Win Arizona Ranch in Court") and has already been posted - twice:
2 Illegal Immigrants Win Arizona Ranch in Court (Judicial Tyranny IV)
2 Illegal Immigrants Win Arizona Ranch in Court

[andyk]

I searched on "Illegal Immigrants" and "Awarded" and got no hits.

Don't worry, it's not an old, old, old story, nor has the NYT article been posted yet, AFAIK.

[One Proud Dad]

That's nothing, you guess is as good as mine as to how much land is owned by foreign companies and individuals when an American can't own anything in the foreign country.