Thread: Neighbors in Fear Following Killing of Well-Liked Arizona Ra

Updated March 30, 2010
Neighbors in Fear Following Killing of Well-Liked Arizona Rancher

By Joshua Rhett Miller

- FOXNews.com


A neighbor in the area where an illegal immigrant is believed to have killed a well-liked Arizona rancher says she intends to carry weapons to protect herself -- and not from rattlesnakes or wounded steer.

Wendy Glenn says she heard Robert Krentz communicating with his brother on the radio Saturday before he was shot dead. Authorities said Krentz, 58, was tending to water lines and fencing on his family's ranch in the known smuggling corridor when he was heard saying "illegal alien" on the radio.

"That's the last we heard from him," said Glenn, who lives on the nearby Malpai Ranch.

Krentz, whose family has owned Krentz Ranch, about 35 miles northeast of Douglas, since 1907, was found fatally shot just hours later.

"We have all been carrying guns for several years," said Glenn, referring to her fellow ranchers in the region. "But now we're going to be much more and pay more attention. We have an element of people coming up here who are not the normal league of aliens from 10 years ago."

Glenn said there's been a "flood" of illegal immigrants trying to enter the country in the area since amnesty started being discussed as a potential answer to the country's immigration crisis.

"It makes us feel really bad, they're trashing the land, they're leaving garbage," she told FoxNews.com. "But we tolerate it because we have no choice."

She called for U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to increase their presence in the area in the wake of a murder she said has "devastated" the close-knit community 35 miles from the Mexican border.

"This is a senseless, stupid killing," Glenn said. "It would've been different if he was attacking someone."

Glenn said Krentz was "gentle giant" who often helped illegal immigrants crossing into the United States on his 35,000-acre ranch.

"We all have," she said. "They're having babies in our pastures, they're breaking their legs … It's a tough deal because these people are here illegally but they are human beings."

Krentz, a devout Catholic, would "help anyone" in need, she said.

"We lost a really good guy. He wasn't family, but it's like losing family."

Steven Cribby, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said 88,453 illegal immigrants were picked up in the Tuscon, Ariz., sector between Oct. 1, 2009, and Feb. 28. That area, which includes Ajo to Douglas, Ariz., includes the region where Krentz was shot. That figure is up 9 percent from the same span the previous year, Cribby said.

"It's our busiest sector," he said. "[It's] not a significant increase, really."

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Glenn said there's been a "flood" of illegal immigrants trying to enter the country in the area since amnesty started being discussed as a potential answer to the country's immigration crisis.

This corrupt govt is SO useless I could scream.

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Roger Hedgecock Show.
Listen as Roger Talks about the Assassionation of Arizona Rancher Bob Krentz.
with guests JD Hayworth, Tom Tancredo, and two Ranchers who live near Krentz Ranch. One is Roger Barnett.

This November let's remove from office Democrats. And in 2012 let'st elect another president. The Democrats and the president do not want to build the fence. That is why we have the illegal aliens coming to this country. And the Democrtas do not deport illegal aliens. Let's elect peoplle who will deport all illegal aliens and who will build the fence. AND NO TO AMNESTY. IT IS TIME TO DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS.

WHy isn't Obama expressing outrage about this? Where are the other bleeding hearts?

Originally Posted by miguelina

WHy isn't Obama expressing outrage about this? Where are the other bleeding hearts?

Because Obama and the other bleeding hearts do not give a damn about Americans who are murdered at the hands of illegal invaders! Keeping the borders wide open, to maximize those who benefit from his amnesty is all that matters.

Is there any other conclusion one could reach?

If Obama and Napolitano would put just half the effort in securing our border as THEY ARE PUSHING AMNESTY FOR THESE CRIMINALS DOWN OUR THROATS, then Robert Krentz, and countless other Americans, who were MURDERED at the hands of illegal invaders might still be alive today!

This is treason on the part of this government who refuses to protect American citizens from this invasion!

Calls needed to demand national guard be placed at the Border!!!

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