'Criminal invaders' get our property, too

The Arizona Daily Star ^ | 08.28.2005 | Randy Graf
Posted on 08/28/2005 8:04:47 AM PDT by Borax Queen
EQUAL TIME: Randy Graf sees the ranch forfeiture as part of an erosion of freedoms.
The rule of law is a standard we can no longer afford to bend. Without laws or equal enforcement of those laws, there is anarchy. The anarchy that exists today with regard to illegal immigration hit a new low last week. The seizure of Casey Nethercott's land in Cochise County, near Douglas, is the epitome of the brazen disregard for the rule of law that the open-border crowd has achieved.
Such groups as La Raza, MEChA and the Council on Foreign Relations - all of whom are trying to merge Mexico with the United States - won a tremendous victory in this case. Their victory is the American public's loss.
Nethercott, an Arizona rancher, was accused of harassing two illegal aliens from Central America and charged in Texas with a criminal offense. The criminal charges were dismissed only to have a far-left group challenge Casey in civil court.
An open-border activist judge awarded the two illegal aliens damages against an American citizen. Despite the fact that they were given water and supplies and sent on their way, the suit alleged that the plaintiffs are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Casey sits in prison for gun possession while the illegal aliens have applied for special visas and have a $100,000-plus ranch to get started in their new lives.
It wasn't enough for the judge to award punitive damages. Instead of giving Casey the opportunity to liquidate assets and pay fines, awards or judgments, this judge took the deed to Casey's land in Arizona and turned it over to the illegal aliens. After ignoring, ridiculing and passing the buck on existing immigration laws for the last few years, Gov. Janet Napolitano decided to declare a state of emergency in Arizona last week.
She has had every opportunity to enforce a proposition that 57 percent of the voters approved. Rather than responding to the will of the people and enforcing Proposition 200, she and her special-interest cronies attempted every trick in the book to prevent the law from being carried out.
The watered-down version of Proposition 200 that eventually emerged makes it easier to vote than to rent a movie from the local video store.
The criminal invaders already have access to welfare, education, health care, highways - and now they have access to our private property. Apparently, not only can the government seize our homes - as declared in the Supreme Court decision on the so-called Kelo case in June - it can also turn them over to illegal aliens. 1. Unless the public wakes up and takes control, politicians will continue to listen to special-interest groups, ignoring the vast majority of the American public that wants a sovereign nation with secure borders. Whose ranch is next up for seizure and redistribution to illegal aliens?
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