Posted on 01/25/2006 11:17:47 PM PST by Sharks
AP) - BISBEE, Arizona-Two Salvadoran immigrants are now the legal owners of an Arizona ranch near the Mexican border that was seized from an anti-immigrant activist accused of pistol-whipping them.
Documents granting the 70-acre ( 28-hectare) ranch once owned by Casey Nethercott to Fatima del Socorro Leiva Medina and Edwin Alfredo Mancia Gonzales were signed by a Cochise County judge on Monday.
Nethercott is serving a five-year prison term in Texas stemming from a 2003 incident on a Texas ranch where he confronted Leiva and Mancia and was accused of pistol-whipping them. He was acquitted of assault but convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Nethercott was a member of the group Ranch Rescue, which works to protect private property along the southern U.S. border from incursions by illegal immigrants.
The Southern Poverty Law Center brought suit against Nethercott on behalf of the two immigrants. Nethercott did not respond and a Texas judge ordered him to pay $500,000. Also named in the suit was Jack Foote, the founder of Ranch Rescue, and the owners of the Texas ranch, Joe and Betty Sutton. The Suttons settled for $100,000. Foote also didn't offer a defense and was ordered to pay $500,000.
Leiva and Mancia were illegal immigrants from El Salvador. They received temporary legal status in the United States as crime victims and are seeking visas to stay longer.
They don't plan to hold on to the ranch, said Kelley Bruner, an attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Instead the property near Douglas, Arizona, will be sold, with the proceeds going to the immigrants
ONLY IN US OF A
ONLY IN US OF A
What is wrong with this picture???????????
Seems this case would be headed for the Surpreme Court. . .that said; we have miles to go. . .
There's too much wrong with this picture....far too much.
Well, next time someone finds illegals like this on their property, most likely he'll chose to bury them quietly in a pit of lime instead of handing the deed over by turning them in.
That is just about right...
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i never thought id be ashamed to call myself an american, buttttttttttt
Well, it seems a guy named Jack Foote founded Ranch Rescue, a law-abiding group not accussed of any crime. Then a guy named Casey Nethercott, who happens to be a member of that group, gets convicted of illegal possession of a firearm. So Jack Foote has to give half a million dollars to two illegal immigrants. That's what's wrong with this picture.
It will not too long before ILLEGALS run for office positions. They are doing jobs Americans "dont want" and are taking properites Americans want.
ya know, theres a whole heck of a lot more going on here than meets the mind at first glance. no. 1, please note that physical damage done by attempted murder never results in such transfer of property. no. 2, please note that illegals driving without insurance never have to make good on damages to alleged citizens. i think you get my drift.
no, what we have here is once again a jackal in a black robe, a true enemy of the real america making policy from his perch.
Wars have started over far less.
Leftist judges have lost their minds, and the American people have lost their honor that they will allow this.
and since texas is just about the true america if there ever was one, yet they sit back and allow this? honor, lol, thats a quaint old fashioned word, whats it mean again>?
Pardon me while I hurl....
The same fashion Nethercott lost his land to illegals because "crime". Illegals in return should be deported because of being illegal. They are lawbreakers. they have been rewarded to stay.
It may be quaint, but the decline will continue until some real men find some real honor once again.
I heard this story before - I thought it was an urban legend. This pisses me off beyond belief!!
Words escape me. How is this possible? Two illegals that broke the law end up with this guys ranch. There is something terribly wrong and it needs to be corrected.
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