[IPSM] NY Times biography of "Immigrant hunter"

[Macdonald Stainsby]

Illegal immigrants are “invading the place,” said Roger Barnett, left, 
on his ranch with his brother Brent.

By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
Published: November 24, 2006

For years, Roger Barnett has holstered a pistol to his hip, tucked an 
assault rifle in his truck and set out over the scrub brush on his 
thousands of acres of ranchland near the Mexican border in southeastern 
Arizona to hunt.

Hunt illegal immigrants, that is, often chronicled in the news.

“They’re flooding across, invading the place,” Mr. Barnett told the ABC 
program “Nightline” this spring. “They’re going to bring their families, 
their wives, and they’re going to bring their kids. We don’t need them.”

But now, after boasting of having captured 12,000 illegal crossers on 
land he owns or leases from the state and emerging as one of the 
earliest and most prominent of the self-appointed border watchers, Mr. 
Barnett finds himself the prey.

Immigrant rights groups have filed lawsuits, accusing him of harassing 
and unlawfully imprisoning people he has confronted on his ranch near 
Douglas. One suit pending in federal court accuses him, his wife and his 
brother of pointing guns at 16 illegal immigrants they intercepted, 
threatening them with dogs and kicking one woman in the group.

full:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/24/us/24border.html?hp&ex=1164430800&en=0459abd701a54289&ei=5094&partner=homepage


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Macdonald Stainsby
http://independentmedia.ca/survivingcanada
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In the contradiction lies the hope
    --Bertholt Brecht.