Posted on 07/23/2014 11:42:52 AM PDT by kristinn
Michael Vickers’s ranch 113 kilometres north of the US–Mexico border in Brooks County, Texas, is near a Border Patrol checkpoint. Undocumented migrants trek through the harsh brushland onto his property to avoid capture. An electric fence encloses the nearly 1,000 acres: at 220 volts, says Vickers, a local veterinarian and avid hunter, “it won’t kill them but it will make them wet their pants”.
In 2006, Vickers and his wife Linda founded the Texas Border Volunteers, which now has some 300 recruits, who dress in fatigues and patrol private ranches in South Texas, using night-vision goggles and thermal imaging to track people in the dark. When they spot migrants they alert the Border Patrol. Former volunteers say the Vickerses did not allow them to provide first aid to migrants in distress or get closer than 10m. If a migrant was severely dehydrated, they were allowed to throw a bottle of water from that distance.
In her home, Linda dispenses a glass of strawberry, cucumber and mint-infused water, moving swiftly around the kitchen in her workout shorts, beige vest and calf-high cowboy boots. In a nearby hallway, a plaque hangs on the wall: “2012 Super Star Award Presented to the B.E.S.T. Team – 119 Reported Illegal Aliens, 101 Border Patrol Apprehensions”. The plaque honours Linda’s dogs, Blitz, Elsa, Schatten and Tinkerbell, three of them German Shepherds, who have been trained to sniff out migrants and to whom she speaks lovingly in basic German. “You can’t hide from that nose,” says Linda.
Linda, chief of staff for the Texas Border Volunteers, says she frequently sees undocumented migrants near the house. But she is not afraid. She is always armed with a .45 Long Colt – the kind of gun used to shoot ducks, her husband says...
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“Hunting Humans”
You mean this Michael Vicker is going out with a gun and shooting illegals who try to cross the border for sport? Of course not. But that’s the impression that the propagandists at Newsweak want to present. Their bias and spin are so obvious that the article isn’t worth reading.
Another MSM writer referred to the invaders mode of transport north from central American: La Bestia—EL Tren de Muerto (”the train of death’) as having “wagons” rather than cars.
Making it sound even more dangerous.
This Newsweak writer must have meant to say that ducks were being dropped from cottonwoods by Yosemite Sam-like cartoon-character Americans, and mesquite and the other trees where they, uh,
where the ducks go to roost in the evening ....
;^)
Karla Zabludovsky covers Latin America for Newsweek. Previously, she reported for the New York Times from Mexico.
Good little koolaid drinking, progressive, coastal white feminist, absolutely freaked by a strong, gun carrying woman in cowboy boots.
Sounds to me like these two were having fun toying with a reporter that was clearly out of her league.
Isn’t Newsweak just a blog these days?
Vickers clever way of letting the readers know the “reporter” is a total idiot.
Got to watch us Texans we will make you look like an idiot just for kicks, and the reporter fell for it hook line and sinker.
I presume that the “reporter” had their leg pulled, real hard.
Some people are just stupid.
Next time they should give her a bag & a stick and take her snipe hunting:
“Be vewy vewy quiet. Snipes are shy birds.”
I hope that’s the case instead of what usually happens with these kind of articles- the “reporter” turns into a cheap shot artist to push their liberal agenda.
My kind of woman.
“...But she is not afraid. She is always armed with a .45 Long Colt – the kind of gun used to shoot ducks, her husband says...”
Either he’s a fine shot or someone’s been listening to that wascally wabbit - “It’s duck season!”
Take the genius reporter out for an “illegal alien” hunt and have some of you buddies play illegal aliens and shoot them with blanks.
Yes, here in Texas people actually do those kind of things to idiots just for the laugh.
Liberals are too stupid to be idiots.
After reading it everyone pretty much knows the “reporter” is an idiot so that was probably the intent.
Don’t come to Texas and try to BS a BS’er, you’ll loose.
We’re experts.
If you can hit a duck on the fly with a .45 Long Colt, you’re a pretty darn good shot. But using that load on a duck would probably run afoul of the law. (I’ll defer to others on those regulations.) Of course, there are pistols chambered for .45 Long Colt that will also fire a .410 shotshell (the Taurus Judge, the S & W Governor, and the Bond Arms “Defender” series, for example). Maybe that’s what this ill-informed writer was referring to.
Thanks for the info re the .410 capacity of the Colt.
I did not know that!
Convince the rest of the world that we are hunting them down like wild boar. Real subtle.
So Karla Zabludovsky wouldn’t mind if a hoard of people showed up to squat on her lawn, break into her house and take what they wanted and generally trash her property? Strangers breaking in and stealing things is A-OK with Karla, presumably.
$80,000 in property damage on just one ranch. How long can the ranch absorb those costs? what does that do to the price of beef?
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