Ranch Is Signed Over To 2 Illegal Immigrants

[Ryan Ruck]

Ranch Is Signed Over To 2 Illegal Immigrants

Two immigrants illegal aliens are now the legal owners of a Douglas-area ranch seized from an anti-immigrant anti-illegal alien activist. Documents granting the 70-acre ranch once owned by Casey Nethercott to Fatima del Socorro Leiva Medina and Edwin Alfredo Mancia Gonzales were signed by a Cochise County judge on Monday.

Nethercott is serving a five-year prison term in Texas stemming from a 2003 incident on a Texas ranch where he confronted Leiva and Mancia and was accused of pistol-whipping them. He was acquitted of assault but convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm. (And somehow being a felon in possession of a firearm is the "legitimate" reason why his property was stolen from him?!?!?!) Nethercott was a member of the group Ranch Rescue, which works to protect private property along the southern U.S. border.

The Southern Poverty Law Center brought suit against Nethercott on behalf of the two immigrants illegal aliens. Nethercott did not respond and a Texas judge ordered him to pay $500,000.

Also named in the suit were Jack Foote, the founder of Ranch Rescue and the owners of the Texas ranch, Joe and Betty Sutton.

The Suttons settled for $100,000. Foote also didn't offer a defense and was ordered to pay $500,000. Leiva and Mancia were illegal immigrants from El Salvador. (Ohhh!! Really!! Well, I’m glad they finally gave us the whole story 5 paragraphs into the article!) They received temporary legal status in the United States as crime victims and are seeking visas to stay longer.

They don't plan to hold on to the ranch, said Kelley Bruner, an attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Instead the property will be sold, with the proceeds going to the immigrants illegal aliens.

The Arizona Daily Red Star seems to be omitting that these two are really illegal aliens (at least until they put that hidden info in the 5th paragraph), not immigrants. So, I took the liberty of fixing the article for them…

[Aplomb]

I was already pissed off about this hearing about it on talk radio; and now that I see the way it was actually worded, it just makes the story that much worse.