16 Illegals Sue Arizona Rancher
February 9, 2009
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.
I love this country, but the fact that we allow a lawsuit like this shows just how far we’ve fallen.
It also said Mr. Barnett acknowledged that he had turned over 12,000 illegal immigrants to the Border Patrol since 1998…He said he carried a pistol during his searches for the immigrants and had a rifle in his truck “for protection” against immigrant and drug smugglers, who often are armed…
“This is my land. I´m the victim here,” Mr. Barnett said. “When someone´s home and loved ones are in jeopardy and the government seemingly can´t do anything about it, I feel justified in taking matters into my own hands. And I always watch my back.”
This man is a hero and should be awarded, not sued.
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February 9th, 2009 at 9:23 am
I saw that, and was just freakin amazed that it even made it to a court. Illegals have no civil rights, they are not citizens.
February 9th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
I also think the lawsuit is totally unacceptable considering the fact that these are illegal immigrants who have no business being in the U.S. or on Mr. Barnett’s land. Citizens should have the right to protect their land and property, by force if necessary, if law enforcement is not present.
That being said, this man is by no means a “hero.”
It was Oct. 30, 2004. Morales, a 37-year-old Department of Defense employee, was deer hunting with his father, Arturo, and three little girls: his daughter, Vanese, who was then 11, her little sister Angelique, 9, and Emma English, a friend who was also 11. All were Mexican-Americans — U.S. citizens since birth.
The way Ron Morales tells the story, around 4 p.m. he and his eldest daughter left the rest of the party at his truck to stalk a buck they had spotted.
Vanese had the deer in her crosshairs when the sound of a distant ruckus in the direction of the truck alarmed her father. Morales took the rifle, slung it over his shoulder, and they hurried back.
They arrived to find another truck parked near their own. Next to it, Morales says, an angry white man with a pistol strapped to his side paced back and forth, shouting obscenities. “You’re fucking trespassing! You guys need to get the fuck out of here!”
“I have a hunter’s permit, I have a map,” Morales protested as he walked to his vehicle, set down his rifle, grabbed a Bureau of Land Management map, and tried to reason with the man.
Morales, a Navy veteran, says he addressed him as “sir” and asked his name. The man reached in the cab of his truck, yanked out an AR-15 assault rifle, and gave Morales his answer.
“My fucking name is Roger Barnett! If you don’t get off my property, I’m gonna shoot you and shoot you and shoot you!”
While I applaud Mr. Barnett for exercising his right to defend his property against illegal immigrants–I’m sure we all agree that if we were hunting on public lands with a permit and map in hand as U.S. citizens, and we were threatened as such–we would not be calling him a hero.
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=758
February 10th, 2009 at 7:12 am
Were they on his property, or on public lands that he leases to feed his herd?
February 20th, 2009 at 3:38 am
I believe what Mr. Barnett was right, whether he owns, leases or inherited the property. Had these people done it legally and met them at the border, with a weapon then I would have a different opinion. Something needs to be done. A 50 foot fence won’t work.
Not all of “these people” are bad seeds. Because of the corrupt goverment in Mexico, they are infitrating our country.
I was born and raised in New Mexico as were my parents. Unlike my siblings, I am the one with the darker skin. I am Hispanic, but before that, I am an American. I served in the Navy when many were fleeing to Canada and now retired from the VA.
This nation was born of immigrants.
What scares me are the racist, bigoted people that profile me before they get to know me.
I don’t care to own a weapon of any kind, but would I raise one?
Hell yes, you bet I would!
To Don Singleton, “what’s your point”?
To MJ, “racial profiling” is not good in any case. And that is what Mr.Barnett did wrong. Would I stand next to him? YES.
That is of course, if he profiled me like he did to Mr. Morales and his father, then no I wouldn’t.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:21 am
Manny, my point is he has a legal right to protect his own land. Whether that legal right extends to public land he leases from the government depends on the terms of the lease.
Why do you say he profiled them? Do you know that he would not have done what he did if they had been Arabs sneaking into this country illegally from Mexico? Or Africans, Asians, or even Europeans (except that the only people I know of that sneak into the country from Mexico are either Latins or Arabs)
May 8th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
he is a racist! lol
November 17th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Whether it is liked or not, illegal immigrants are afforded the rights of our constitution. Bitch, moan, complain…does not stop the fact. Here is just a small example: A Connecticut judge has blocked the deportation of four illegal immigrants, ruling that their constitutional rights were violated by the federal agents who arrested them during a 2007 ICE raid. “The touchstone of the Fourth Amendment is ‘reasonableness’ and, by natural extension, one’s reasonable expectation of privacy,” Judge Straus wrote. “Nowhere is that expectation of privacy more sacrosanct than in the confines of one’s home.”
This is the actual ruling by the immigration judge: http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/upload/2009/06/FairhavenRuling3.pdf
“It is further ordered that the respondent’s Motion to Terminate removal proceedings be GRANTED.”
You all may not agree, heck, I may not agree (I’ll hold my opinion to myself at this point) but PLEASE if you all consider yourself good US citizens, please learn your own laws!