Thread: Man claims immigrants tore apart aunt's home

Man claims immigrants tore apart aunt's home
by Ashly Custer

Posted: 06.25.2014 at 8:59 PM










Action 4 News camped out along the Rio Grande River, just south of Granejo and captured 18 undocumented immigrants on camera walking up the road searching for Border Patrol.

The youngest was just over a year old.

This is Lorenzo Anzaldua Jr.'s childhood home.

He totes a gun for personal safety and said smugglers can be dangerous.

His family is fed up with immigrants tossing trash across his land and abusing their family home.

"Look at the house they are destroying it," said Anzaldua of his aunt's home.

Andzaldua said undocumented immigrants have traveled through this property for years.

He said what once was a beautiful well-kept home, is now left in shambles.

He tells Action 4 News, he's caught a group of immigrants inside the home before.

He showed us the drywall that's been ripped from the walls, the missing electrical wires and copper, broken windows, and clothes strewn across the floor.

"They stole the sink. Who the hell steals a sink?" he asked.

It breaks his heart to see the house in this condition.

It’s not that bad, but Anzaldua says he compares it to his family feeling disrespected and violated.

"When a woman says they were raped, they felt violated. That's how it feels. That's how it feels. It feels so bad that the knot in your throat-you can't breathe," he explained.

The home has been empty for two years while his aunt awaits a kidney transplant.

Anzaldua has caught immigrants inside sleeping and suspects smugglers were using it has a stash house.

He checks up on the property every few days, but comes bearing arms.

"I come, I always bring my shotgun. This thing is heavy; I don't want to carry my shotgun. This is America, this is Texas, but with these illegal aliens you got to be armed, you have to be armed," he warns.

You just never what type you might run into.

Anzaldua worries about wildlife and the human smugglers.

"If you're not armed, you're a fool."

Anzaldua wants to see more done to secure our border.

He wants our politicians to step up because it's not just children crossing; it's full grown adults too.

Anzaldua said while the undocumented immigrants claim to come to live a better lifestyle, he feels that as Americans, his family is entitled to living the lifestyle they’ve worked hard to achieve.

He said his aunt worked hard as a single mom providing for her family, and now that it's time for retirement, she doesn't have this home to come back to.

Anzaldua said the damage was worse before the surge because immigrants were still hiding out.

Now, many of them are surrendering themselves to Border Patrol agents.

http://www.valleycentral.com/news/st...6#.U61Vp5RdVKX

Whether you are Dem or Repub this is pathetic. One amnesty started it, neither party has spent serious time trying to stop it. Americans keep voting for the same politicians. We claim to be the best of the best,it is hard to fathom. A home is bad enough to have wrecked, but the lives wrecked by gangs, drugs, beatings, rapes, murders, and politicians think its acceptable collateral damage, and we agree with them through the ballot box.