Border Monitor Mistakes Hunters For Illegal Immigrants And Loses Arizona Personal Injury Suit
Roger Barnett, who is widely considered responsible for the current vigilante border patrol movement, took his role too far when he pointed his AR-15 assault rifle at a group of hunters near his property and threatened to shoot them. The Mexican American hunters filed and won their personal injury claim citing assault, false imprisonment, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress by the Southwest Arizona ranch owner.
Barnett, who boasts of intercepting more than 10,000 immigrants illegally crossing the Mexican border, still has more Arizona personal injury cases pending against him which were filed by immigrant-rights groups. The groups are accusing him of unlawfully imprisoning and harassing illegal immigrants who trespass on his ranch.