The situation in Mexico has serious consequences for our Rights, and even our lives here in AZ and all along the Mexican border. We cannot emphasize enough how much it is in our interest to have a free, safe and prosperous Mexico as our neighbor. Many of us have family, friends there and they are our neighbor.

We strongly support the Human Rights of the Mexican people to be able to defend themselves. That means the Mexican people should once again have the rights and resources to possess, bear and use modern and effective firearms. As over 70 years of corrupt federal government and it's attending gun control have shown, the bumper sticker is so true. "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns". Mexico is a textbook example of the failures of gun control. While some very limited firearms are permitted on paper, and in practice, the real effect has been to disarm the good people of Mexico.
That was done by the very corrupt political party that ran a country rich in natural resources and people, into the ground to prevent a revolution, not to "control crime" as was the pretense.

As the archived reports will show, the defenseless people of Mexico have suffered way too much. They deserve much better. We need to help.

Given the gravity of the ongoing drug war in Mexico our neighbor to the south, ASR&PA has been working to monitor the border situation and it's many effects on our state and our members:

Including drug and human trafficking, with related issues of murders, kidnappings, home invasions, extortion, destruction of wildlife habitat, illegal immigration, white slavery, money laundering, expenses of incarceration and medical treatments, the list goes on and on. Also de facto cession of areas of the state to the DTO's; fugitives, cash, firearms and ammunition running south. Most of these issues could be significantly reduced by simply securing the border.

To get it out of the way, ASR&PA does support legal immigration, trade, and travel between our countries. Especially so that we and our Mexican neighbors can once again freely and safely travel to our neighboring countries for competition, training, hunting and just enjoy good company.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

AZMEX DEFENSE CASE 2-2-09

Cochise County rancher tried on civil rights claims

By Brady McCombs
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 02.02.2009

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A civil rights trial against Cochise County rancher Roger Barnett began today in federal court in Tucson.
The latest suit against the controversial rancher stems from a 2004 incident in a wash near Douglas when Barnett approached a group of illegal immigrants with a gun and a large dog.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs — five women and 11 men who were trying to cross into the U.S. illegally — say that Barnett held the group captive at gunpoint, threatening that his dog would attack and that he would shoot anyone that tried to escape, a press release from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund said.
They say Barnett also kicked one of the members of the group. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is representing the 16 people.
The federal lawsuit charges Barnett, his wife, Barbara Barnett; and his brother, Donald Barnett; with conspiring to violate the plaintiffs' civil rights, the release said.
In March 2008, U.S. District Court Judge John Roll rejected Barnett's efforts to have the charges thrown out. Roll ruled that there was sufficient evidence of a conspiracy - that the conspiracy denied the plaintiffs their right to interstate travel and the actions of the Barnetts were motivated by race - to allow the matter to be presented to a jury.
Barnett's attorney, David Hardy, had argued that illegal immigrants didn't have the same rights of interstate travel.
That setback came on the heels of another judgement against Barnett in February 2008. At that time, the Arizona Court of Appeals refused to throw out a jury verdict of guilty 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.
Barnett has boasted of detaining thousands of border crossers on property he owns or leases near Douglas in the last decade and then turning them over to Border Patrol officials.
The trial is scheduled to go through Feb. 13, the press release from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund said.
The Associated Press contributed to this story. Contact reporter Brady McCombs at 573-4213 or bmccombs@azstarnet.com.
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