http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/09/16-illegals-sue-arizona-rancher/

Bit O'legal bullshitery imho on the parts of the lawyers exploiting the illegals in hopes of cashing in.

However I think a case can be made that perhaps having parts of our national boarder owned privately might be an issue for concern.

He has every right to protect his land and personage however should he be expected to act the part of border guard?

He has all the right in the world to keep trespassers off his property...it's a shame he has to spend his time and resources to do so.

If he was truly abusing them I might take a different stance on that...but telling them his dogs is going to bite them in the but doesn't constitute abuse of these trespassers.

He should sue Mexico for the clean up of his land and his time resources to protect his land.

It also said Mr. Barnett acknowledged that he had turned over 12,000 illegal immigrants to the Border Patrol since 1998.Yep, no problem here.

Illegal's do have rights, but I'd say the suit is pushing it. Even if he was a complete ass, the government should be covering his bills and defending him.

This guy has been in a lot of trouble before. The Cochise County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a complaint filed by two Douglas paramedics alleging that local businessman and rancher Roger Barnett tried to force his way into an ambulance carrying an injured illegal immigrant.

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Barnett could not be reached for comment Thursday, and his brother, Donald Barnett, was unaware of either the incident or the complaint. But Donald Barnett suspected the charges had been motivated by a recent civil suit in which a jury ordered his brother to pay $98,750 in damages.

In that suit, five members of a hunting party led by former Douglas resident Ronald Morales accused Roger Barnett of terrorizing them with a semi-automatic rifle during a trespassing dispute in late 2005. Ed English, father of one of the plaintiffs, is a retired member of the Douglas Fire Department. Source (http://www.svherald.com/articles/2007/01/05/local_news/news1.txt)
U.S. District Court Judge John Roll in March rejected Barnett's efforts to have the charges thrown out, ruling that sufficient evidence of a conspiracy existed, that the Barnetts denied the immigrants' right to interstate travel and that the actions of the three were motivated by race.

Barnett's attorney, David Hardy, had argued that illegal immigrants didn't have the same rights of interstate travel as U.S. citizens do.

Roll's ruling came on the heels of another judgment against Barnett in February 2008.

At that time, the Arizona Court of Appeals refused to throw out a jury verdict from November 2006 - and a nearly $100,000 monetary award - against Barnett in another civil case where a jury concluded he falsely imprisoned members of a Douglas family. Source (http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/02/03/20090203ranchertrial.html)
An Arizona jury, acting in a lawsuit sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center, ordered border vigilante Roger Barnett to pay $98,750 to a family of Mexican-Americans he terrorized in 2004.

The verdict marks the first time Barnett, 62, has been held legally responsible for his violent treatment of Latinos.

Barnett, who controls 22,000 acres in southern Arizona through ownership and state leases, is one of the most prominent border vigilantes along the U.S.-Mexico border. He claims to have captured more than 10,000 people who crossed his land, and publicity about his personal campaign helped inspire other self-appointed groups of border watchers like the Minutemen.

The jury deliberated just three hours on Nov. 22 before ruling against Barnett for threatening two Mexican-American hunters and three young children with an assault rifle and insulting them with racial epithets.

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The Barnetts have several businesses in the area, including a tow-truck service that contracts with the Border Patrol, and both are former deputy sheriffs. In a documentary released last year, El Inmigrante, Roger Barnett expresses his fears of unchecked immigration, namely that "the white race is going to be gone." Source (http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=93)

I'd bet you find a lot of crap like this on me if I were in his position...of course, I would have moved way before that so, never mind.

I heard this on the radio on the way in.

http://www.blueservo.net/vcw.php

You can be a virtual Texas deupty. Hopefully you can't get sued =\