According to the Washington Times, a rancher in Arizona is being sued by a group of illegals for stopping them (on his property) and turning them over to the Border Patrol. The sixteen Mexican nationals are accusing him of conspiring to violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border. According to the article:
"Mr. Barnett told The Washington Times in a 2002 interview that he began rounding up illegal immigrants after they started to vandalize his property, northeast of Douglas along Arizona Highway 80. He said the immigrants tore up water pumps, killed calves, destroyed fences and gates, stole trucks and broke into his home.
Some of his cattle died from ingesting the plastic bottles left behind by the immigrants, he said, adding that he installed a faucet on an 8,000-gallon water tank so the immigrants would stop damaging the tank to get water.
Mr. Barnett said some of the ranch´s established immigrant trails were littered with trash 10 inches deep, including human waste, used toilet paper, soiled diapers, cigarette packs, clothes, backpacks, empty 1-gallon water bottles, chewing-gum wrappers and aluminum foil - which supposedly is used to pack the drugs the immigrant smugglers give their "clients" to keep them running."
The immigrants are represented at trial by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). If you read the whole article, you find that Mr. Barnett was not particularly nice to these sixteen people, but on the other hand, they were illegally on his property. How nice are you required (by law) to be to someone who is trespassing on your property? I hope Mr. Barnett wins his case and makes MALDEF pay for court costs.
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