Posted on 02/09/2009 3:27:42 AM PST by Daffynition
An Arizona man who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal immigrants from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border.
His Cross Rail Ranch near Douglas, Ariz., is known by federal and county law enforcement authorities as "the avenue of choice" for immigrants seeking to enter the United States illegally.
Trial continues Monday in the federal lawsuit, which seeks $32 million in actual and punitive damages for civil rights violations, the infliction of emotional distress and other crimes. Also named are Mr. Barnett's wife, Barbara, his brother, Donald, and Larry Dever, sheriff in Cochise County, Ariz., where the Barnetts live. The civil trial is expected to continue until Friday.
The lawsuit is based on a March 7, 2004, incident in a dry wash on the 22,000-acre ranch, when he approached a group of illegal immigrants while carrying a gun and accompanied by a large dog.
Attorneys for the immigrants - five women and 11 men who were trying to cross illegally into the United States - have accused Mr. Barnett of holding the group captive at gunpoint, threatening to turn his dog loose on them and saying he would shoot anyone who tried to escape.
The immigrants are represented at trial by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), which also charged that Sheriff Dever did nothing to prevent Mr. Barnett from holding their clients at "gunpoint, yelling obscenities at them and kicking one of the women."
In the lawsuit, MALDEF said Mr. Barnett approached the group as the immigrants moved through his property, and that he was carrying a pistol and threatening them in English ...
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(William?) Cooper eventually died in a shoot out with the local Sheriffs.
His website was “Veritas” as I recall.
No, this is Communism in action. They know exactly what they are doing. What do you think hate crimes and political correctness is all about? They are designed to silence dissent and sow confusion. That is they way they take over and control a society, at least one of the ways.
basically, open borders advocates
Sadly that's probably what this rancher should have done to these illegals.
"“We’re a nation of immigrants but it’s always taken great uphill effort to secure the rights of new immigrants. This donation demonstrates my faith in the capacity of our institutions to give new Americans the full measure of their human and civil rights and the opportunity to pursue the American Dream.” MALDEF is deeply grateful to Mr. Nogales for the largest gift by an individual in our history."
When a man or woman becomes an American, They can pursue the American dream.
An illegal is NOT pursuing any dream ... they are running from law, order, and the legally armed American citizen protecting his investment, his property, his rights , his land, his family, his nation ... and the sorry asses of those that violate his (our) laws.
They're in court and ain't dead, aren't they?
Thank Mr. Barnett, his wife, Barbara, his brother, Donald, and Larry Dever, sheriff in Cochise County, Ariz., where the Barnetts live.
I would file one against each one of the donors as well for empowering illegal’s to break the laws in the United States.
Do we not have the power of citizen’s arrest anymore? When did citizen’s arrest turn in to ‘kidnapping’?
LLS
Wonder how much money is in Spendulus for MALDEF?
The Arizona borderlands from Naco to New Mexico are a sad reminder of what happens when a nation gives up its sovereignty. The ranchers have been fighting the illegals for much longer than the government has. They have lost cattle, their fences cut, their land trashed, and no one gives a damn == especially John McCain. Many have given up. Their ranches are being turned into ten acre building sites that only a fool would purchase (and there are many Californians who will do so). This lawsuit is just another indication of how “lawyered-up” this nation has become. We do not need more lawyers, we need less law schools.
Liberal lawyers and judges. If it weren't for them, lawsuits like this would still be thrown out before the plaintiffs' attorney finished his opening statement, as they were before LBJ's "great society" came into being.
I still think the best tools for border enforcement are Gatling guns and backhoes: Spray and plant on a massive scale.
Dead men can’t sue
Where’s rule 11 when you need it?
Citizens arrest.
Those illegals should be deported as far back into SA as the can be.
Lawyers like this are scum.
This is America, guys. Expect to hear it.
Tell us. We don’t like it either.
But the reform has to come from the top down and it’s corrupt all the way up.
Professional courtesy...
No problem with IMMIGRANTS. Lots of problems with ILLEGALS.
It does seems like a criminal conspiracy, doesn't it? Maybe use the RICO statutes against them?
Mark
We already have really bad reform.
It depends on the color of your skin democrats fear of illegal immigrants returning to mexico and voter base will be gone.
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