Migrants Win Ranch from MMP Affiliated Group In Lawsuit

karlos says: Haven't blogged in a while. And there's so much I've wanted to talk about.

from the New York Times. Pretty interesting to say the least.

2 Illegal Immigrants Win Arizona Ranch in Court
By ANDREW POLLACK

New York Times
August 19, 2005

DOUGLAS, Ariz., Aug. 18 - Spent shells litter the ground at what is left of
the firing range, and camouflage outfits still hang in a storeroom. Just a
few months ago, this ranch was known as Camp Thunderbird, the headquarters
of a paramilitary group that promised to use force to keep illegal
immigrants from sneaking across the border with Mexico.

Now, in a turnabout, the 70-acre property about two miles from the border is
being given to two immigrants whom the group caught trying to enter the
United States illegally.

The land transfer is being made to satisfy judgments in a lawsuit in which
the immigrants had said that Casey Nethercott, the owner of the ranch and a
former leader of the vigilante group Ranch Rescue, had harmed them.

"Certainly it's poetic justice that these undocumented workers own this
land," said Morris S. Dees Jr., co-founder and chief trial counsel of the
Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., which represented the
immigrants in their lawsuit. Read more...

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