2 Illegal Immigrants Win Arizona Ranch in Court

[Walt Starr]

2 Illegal Immigrants Win Arizona Ranch in Court
By ANDREW POLLACK
Published: August 19, 2005
DOUGLAS, Ariz., Aug. 18 - Spent shells litter the ground at what is left of the firing range, and camouflage outfits still hang in a storeroom. Just a few months ago, this ranch was known as Camp Thunderbird, the headquarters of a paramilitary group that promised to use force to keep illegal immigrants from sneaking across the border with Mexico.

Now, in a turnabout, the 70-acre property about two miles from the border is being given to two immigrants whom the group caught trying to enter the United States illegally.

The land transfer is being made to satisfy judgments in a lawsuit in which the immigrants had said that Casey Nethercott, the owner of the ranch and a former leader of the vigilante group Ranch Rescue, had harmed them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/19/national/19ranch.html?%20hp

Poetic Justice. The Freepers are howling!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1466707/posts

[knowbody0]

1. it's more like a moan

[tk2kewl]

2. That is poetic...

I hope the plaintiffs have the sense to sell it though... I think they will have targets on their backs if they hang around :( :scared:

[The Blue Knight]

3. I do not give a fuck about who owned the ranch.

The fact that two ILLEGAL immigrants won a ranch from AMERICAN citizen pisses me the fuck off, as it does to 80% of Americans.

[mitchtv]

4. Oh, American citizens are immune to judgements?

from Non citizens? whatever happened to equal protection?

[KarenInMA]

5. No, these people should have lost the case, but the ILLEGAL

aliens should not own property.

[atreides1]

7. Why?

Is there a U.S. law that says they can't own property?

They won it by filing a lawsuit, not by buying it. It's a little
different if they had crossed illegally and purchased the land, then I would agree with you.

[KarenInMA]

8. um... they have no right to be in this country.

They are breaking immigration laws.

These people should have to SELL the ranch, and give them the proceeds, which they can either

a) spend in Mexico
or

b) use to legally migrate to the US.

[mondo joe]

13. They don't need to live here to own US property.

If they're smart they will sell it.

But it's their call now.

[tk2kewl]

9. dude... a good chunk of real estate in the U.S. is owned by foreigners

and a bigger chunk of the $$$

[KarenInMA]

10. Ok, but if they are not legally allowed in the country

they can't live on that property.

Most of the foreigners who own property also have legal visas or migrant status.

[Booster]

12. I agree. Americans can not buy property (land) in Mexico, so why

should illegals be allowed to here. I don't doubt that many people in foreign countries own property in America, but that doesn't make it right. Last night I was in a liquor store in line behind what were obvious illegal aliens. They bought at least 15 separate lottery tickets (why they didn't get all the numbers on one ticket is beyond me), and their total bill came to $59. The lady handed the cashier FOOD STAMPS for the purchase, and, since there were a lot of people in line, from what I could tell the cashier took the food stamps and gave the lady back a lot of change. Do you all agree with this? I sure don't.

[mondo joe]

14. What made it "obvious" they were illegal aliens?

[Booster]

16. Give me a break here. I'm in L.A. You kind of develope an inner

"radar" or gut feeling. Where are you located?

[mondo joe]

17. You mean like George W's gut feeling about WMDs?

George W, is that you?

[atreides1]

6. Justice is blind, but sometimes she hits the right target.

Maybe you would've felt better if Nethercott had just killed them and buried them out in the desert, that way they couldn't have filed
a lawsuit.

[mondo joe]

11. Non US Citizens have legal recourse too.

And they used it.

[Maddy McCall]

15. And won.