Arizona Rancher Who Stopped Illegal Immigrants at Border Now Fighting $32 Million Lawsuit. . . .

If you are wondering why Arizonans are fed up with illegals just read on:

According to foxnews.com:

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 — seeking $32 million in damages — 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, the Washington Times reported Monday.

The rancher, Roger Barnett, 64, began rounding up illegal immigrants in 1998 and turning them over to the U.S. Border Patrol after they destroyed his property, killed his calves and broke into his home, the newspaper reported.

The lawsuit is based on a March 7, 2004, incident in a dry wash on the 22,000-acre ranch, when he approached a group of illegal immigrants while carrying a gun and accompanied by a large dog.

Attorneys for the immigrants — five women and 11 men who were trying to cross illegally into the United States — have accused Barnett of holding the group captive at gunpoint, threatening to turn his dog loose on them and saying he would shoot anyone who tried to escape.

His Cross Rail Ranch near Douglas, Ariz., is known by federal and county law enforcement authorities as "the avenue of choice" for immigrants seeking to enter the United States illegally, the newspaper reports.

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If you don't think this Rancher could lose everything he owns protecting his own land. . . .Read this case from 2009:

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According to Gene P. at news.gather.com:

Jury orders rancher to pay $77,804 to illegal aliens

A federal jury found Tuesday that a southern Arizona rancher didn't violate the civil rights of a group of illegal immigrants who said he detained them at gunpoint in 2004.

The eight-member civil jury also found Roger Barnett wasn't liable on claims of battery and false imprisonment.

But the jury did find him liable on four claims of assault and four claims of infliction of emotional distress and ordered Barnett to pay $77,804 in damages — $60,000 of which were punitive.

They are citizens of Mexico. Trespassing across the border, onto a mans land. He roughs them up and they win 77k in a lawsuit? Only in America. They are still living here while their visa applications are pending. Makes no sense to me.

I'm all for immigrants making it to our country, as long as they do it by the books.

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Don't you know that Davy Crockett, James Bowie, William Travis and all the brave Americans that fought and died at the Alamo are turning over in their graves knowing that over 200 years later we are still being invaded by Mexicans. . . .

I am so sick of the La Raza type Mexicans claiming that Texans stole their land. . . .They just need to understand WAR. . . .We won they lost. . . .so STFU

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,490084,00.html

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