Posted on 03/01/2018 11:13:15 AM PST by nickcarraway
He should be thanking them for watching the border... unless he is a border jumper sympathizer.
Perhaps being paid off by coyotes or other smugglers?
How utterly constitutional of you. /sarc
The government is NOT your friend, and its hired thugs need to obey the laws they enforce.
“.......unless he is a border jumper sympathizer.”
Ricardo D. Palacios. What is one to think?
Depends. Was the camera pointed to the south, or towards his house?
those ranchers on each side have been “swappin” cattle for 200 years.
Government has perfect right to enter private property if it is in the governmental interest, even more so in the case of national security. It has never been any different.
There are a LOT of Hispanics (Tejanos) in Texas, who have deeper and older roots than the US itself. And many of the most important Texas families, such as the Seguins, have been around forever. I have many Tejanos as friends. A lot of them want NOTHING to do with Mexico, so I wouldn’t assume anything at all from a Texan having a Spanish name.
Government has perfect right to enter private property if it is in the governmental interest, even more so in the case of national security. It has never been any different.
“...I wouldnt assume anything at all from a Texan having a Spanish name.”
Most all of my best friends throughout my 71 years have had “Spanish names”, but never sued the Feds for any reason.
He is two miles outside the surveillance zone, for one thing.
The camera placed on his land without his approval should revert to his ownership.
I find nothing in the matter that disfavors this guy except for his being a lawyer, who typically have an eye for litigating money into their pockets.
What follows is relevant here, but I keep a cope on my profile page.
Courtesy of Travis McGee:
“The True History of the Southwest, 101”
The amount of historical idiocy and fallacies surrounding the history of the Southwest is staggering, chief among them the “Aztlan” fairy tales. What’s the truth? How did the Spanish Europeans conquer the Southwest? The “conquistadores” (that means “conquerors”) did it with the lance, and the lash.
For example, in 1541 Coronado entered present-day New Mexico (which included present-day Arizona during the Spanish era) searching for the “lost cities of gold.” One of his first actions upon meeting the natives was to burn 100s of them alive in their dwellings, for not handing over suspected horse thieves. That is how Spain conquered the natives of the present US Southwest—not with hugs and kisses. It was certainly no love-fest between long-lost brown-skinned soul-mates, as it is often portrayed today by the delusional Aztlaners, who spin the “new bronze race of Mestizos” toro-mierda.
By 1821, Mexico City was strong enough to overthrow the even more decrepit and ineffectual Spanish rule. However, the distant provinces of the current U.S. Southwest were far beyond the reach of the authority of the independent but strife-torn government of Mexico City. These distant northern provinces received neither military protection nor needed levels of trade from the south. Under Spanish rule, trade with the USA was forbidden, but at least Spain provided trade and Army protection from hostile Indians. Under Mexican abandonment and neglect, the Southwest received neither trade nor protection from Mexico City.
For example, Comanches and Apaches ran rampant in the 1830s in this power vacuum created by Mexican neglect, burning scores of major ranches that had been active for hundreds of years and massacring their inhabitants. Mexico City could neither defend nor keep the allegiance of its nominal subjects in these regions. Nor did it provide needed levels of trade to sustain the prior Spanish-era standard of living. Mexican governmental influence atrophied, withered and died at the same time that American pathfinders were opening up new routes into the region.
Increasingly, a growing United States of America was making inroads into the Southwest, via ships into California, and via gigantic wagon trains of trade goods over the Santa Fe Trail from St. Louis. The standard of living of the SPANISH in these provinces subsequently increased enormously, which is why they did not support Mexico City in the 1846-48 war. In fact, the Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the Southwest NEVER considered themselves “Mexicans” at all, ever. They went, in their own eyes, from SPANISH directly to AMERICAN. To this very day, if you want a punch in the nose, just call an Hispanic native of New Mexico a “Mexican!”
So how long did Mexico City have even nominal jurisdiction (in their eyes) over the American Southwest? For only 25 years, during which they had no effective control, and the area slipped backwards by every measure until the arrival of the Americans. The SPANISH inhabitants of the Southwest NEVER transferred their loyalty to Mexico City, because all they received from the chaotic Mexican government was misrule, neglect, and unchecked Indian raids.
Since then, how long has the area been under firm American control? For 150 continuous years, during which time the former Spanish inhabitants of the region, now American citizens, have prospered beyond the wildest dreams of the Mexicans still stuck in Mexico. To compare the infrastructure, roads, schools, hospitals etc of the two regions is to understand the truth. The Mexican government has been mired in graft, corruption, nepotism and chaos from the very start until today. The ordinary Mexican peons have been trampled and abused, while only the super-rich elites have thrived. This is why millions of Mexicans want to escape from Mexico today, to enjoy the benefits of living in America that they can never hope to obtain in Mexico.
And because today Mexico is a corrupt third-world pest-hole, (despite having more millionaires and billionaires than Great Britain), we are now supposed to let any Mexican from Chiapas, Michoacan or Yucatan march into the American Southwest, and make some “historical claim” of a right to live there?
From where does this absurd idea spring?
At what point in history did Indians and Mestizos from Zacatecas or Durango stake a claim on the American Southwest? Neither they nor their ancestors ever lived for one single day in the American Southwest. The Spanish living in the Southwest in 1846 stayed there, and became Americans by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. There were no Spanish inhabitants of the Southwest who were marched to the border and driven into Mexico. It didn’t happen. The SPANISH in the Southwest welcomed American citizenship, which brought stability, protection from Indian raids, and a vast increase in their standard of living with the increase in trade.
In summary, NO current inhabitants of Mexico have ANY claim on even one single inch of the Southwest!
NOT ONE citizen of Mexico is sneaking into the USA to reclaim property their ancestors were deprived of, NOT ONE.
They are criminal invaders and colonizers, pure and simple.
It’s time Americans learned the true history, as a counter to the prevalent Aztlaner fairy tales.
Ricardo D. Palacios, a lawyer may equal two strikes not including his behavior and sons.
Maybe a good use of emminent domain? Declare most lands within a thousand fee of the border land need for our national defense. Make it a free fire zone (wishful thinking). Anyway, unless this guy is trying to violate our laws and sovereignty, maybe he is smuggling illegals or drugs or something, he should be thankful for the government efforts. And, too, they should have asked first, unless this was part of an investigation. If the latter, would they need a warrant?
More than a few border ranchers take cartel money to look the other way, and to impede the Border Patrol in every legal way they can.
The Border Patrol can enter the property inside that 25 mile zone, but only on foot. No ATVs, no horses, no Jeeps without permission of the rancher.
So a lot of ranchers make it as hard on them as they can.
I’m guessing this man’s sympathy lies south of the border.
Money well spent.... both times.
“He is two miles outside the surveillance zone, for one thing.”
According to you. Please give us the lat and long of the camera and his fenceline. Bet this is some legal sophistry. His entry gate is likely 2 miles out of the zone, but not the entire property.
And that far in, there are likely good reasons to watch his place.
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