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To: BuckeyeTexan
"They need to be very careful how they handle themselves."

‘Get back across the border or you will be shot.’

Whoops... :)

31 posted on 07/06/2014 5:45:21 PM PDT by equalator
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To: equalator
Texas Penal Code Title 2, Chapter 9 permits the threat or use of deadly force to prevent or terminate criminal trespass.

Texas Penal code Title 7, Chapter 30 defines criminal trespass.

As long as these individuals are asked directly by the property owner to defend his private property against criminal trespass, they are theoretically operating under the law.

I say "theoretically" because in August 2001, Samuel Blackwood was convicted of homicide for killing an illegal immigrant who crossed the border and stopped at his ranch to ask for food and water. Blackwood shot at the illegal and hit him in the back of the thigh. The illegal bled to death. Blackwood tried to claim self defense. He was sentenced to a probated 180 days.

Again, they need to conduct themselves very carefully.

77 posted on 07/06/2014 6:20:24 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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