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"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.

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.

1. At the time of the incident they were not in the country legally. They entered illegally and are now trying to claim asylum status in order to have standing to receive their legal lottery windfall.

2. In no way was justice served, when a property owner can have his property extorted out of his hands via a civil suit. For roughing the ILLEGAL aliens up, justice would demand that he go to jail commensurate with the extent of the assault he committed. Under current laws, his possession of a gun was also a crime and he faces the penalty for that crime. But there is no way that a six-figure civil penalty should be justified and forcing the forfeiture of the ranch. This was not justice in any fashion.