“A Day In The Life Of An Arizona Rancher”
Posted by Lady Liberty on Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 7:04 PM
The Center for Immigration Studies has produced its first web-based film that looks in depth at what it is like to live as an Arizona rancher amongst the isolation and dangers posed by illegal immigration.
“A Day in the Life of an Arizona Rancher: Border Fences, Illegal Aliens, and One Man’s Watchtower,”
Part I
Part II
The Center For Immigration Studies has produced its first web-based film that looks in depth at what it is like to live as an Arizona rancher amongst the isolation and dangers posed by illegal immigration. “A Day in the Life of an Arizona Rancher: Border Fences, Illegal Aliens, and One Man’s Watchtower,” released one year after the March 2010 tragic murder of rancher Robert Krentz, unravels the mindset of a rancher trying to balance the complexities of illegal immigration when dealing with protecting himself, his family and his property from unknown, constant and potentially dangerous trespassers who in Arizona are nearly always illegal aliens.
Richard Humphries, a lifelong Arizona resident and former narcotics cop living thirty miles north of the southeast Arizona border in Cochise County, became concerned enough with illegal activity on his land to build a watchtower to help himself and federal law enforcement track illegal aliens on his 75 acre ranch. This film relates Mr. Humphries’ humane approach to curbing illegal immigration in his own words, chronicling stories about a 150 mile car chase of an illegal alien load; a close call at his front gate; a thirsty and scared woman who had lost her coyote; and a rancher’s view of the Border Patrol tasked with interdicting illegal aliens across a still-porous border. The film’s introduction provides a reality check on the extent that border fencing does and does not exist from Douglas to Nogales, and a view of ‘Los Corrales’ from the U.S. side of the border, a holding refuge for the smuggled.
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Ginger commented:
He sure is brave!
No way would I live out like that!
tommy mc donnell commented:
its not immigrantion! its a racist colonization orchestrated by political forces in this country.
chuck in st paul commented:
I still think an open season with a dollar a head bounty would clear up the whole issue.
Private Joker: How can you shoot women or children?
Door Gunner: Easy! Ya just don’t lead ‘em so much!
Nuke ‘em ’til they glow. Shoot ‘em in the dark.
Works for me.
retire05 commented:
On a personal note what all of us, who live in border states, live with on a daily basis.
I live in a small town where up until a few years ago, no one locked their doors unless they left to go on vacation. Just going to the store? No one bothered to lock their doors. Then the news started coming out that there had been a murder in a town near by in the next county. And the murders continue to rack up, and the Texas Rangers saw a pattern that the murders seem to follow the United Pacific railroad tracks.
Since I live just two blocks from the tracks (my town was built as a railroad town) neighbors started worrying about their safety. Not long after the first murder in the neighboring town, more murders happened in the same town. The news was that the FBI was on it, and there was a country-wide man hunt now in play.
Eventually, the murderer was apprehended by a rookie Texas Ranger. The man’s name was Angel Resendez and no one really knows, to this day, just how many people he murdered. He was dubbed a.k.a. The Railroad Killer, so you can look him up. Resendez was an illegal, who had even voted in two elections in Harris County, Texas. And he changed the lives of a lot of Texans who knew they could no longer go off to the store and leave their doors unlocked, who could no longer sleep with open windows on cool spring nights, and who knew that basically, they needed to arm themselves.
I have a beautiful daughter (she is a solid double for Sandra Bullock) and she complains about the cat calls and foul things said to her in Spanish by illegals. I guess these stupid illegals don’t know that most Texans speak a little Spanish and understand what the word “puta” means.
The fact is that we here in Texas have been complaining about the illegal “problem” for years, as has Arizona and New Mexico. But no one wanted to pay any attention to us because, after all, we are just considered fly-over country and too far from D.C. for anyone there to care. Now, people all over the nation are dying at the hands of illegals, losing jobs to illegal, having their homes broken into by illegals, and all of a sudden it has become a “national” problem, not a regional one.
The reason I tell you all this is because illegal immigration changes your life. It takes away some of the security you have always known because illegals, who have no regard for our laws, certainly don’t care about your rights.
There will be others like Robert Krantz. He is not the first, and he won’t be the last. Read Angel Resendez’ bio and you will understand what I mean. Then go to this web site, check on the part that links to the victims of illegal immigration.
http://www.local.2544.us
bitterclinger commented:
retire05 — I hope you and your daughter are packing heat at all times. Godspeed, and may our travails with the illegals end when we get a legitimate president.
once2happy2sin commented:
Another good reason as to why voting has consequences.
greg commented:
The federal govt wastes a lot of money each year with their repetitive hurricane or flood or tornado or earthquake disaster training advertisements (a form of govt kickback to media). For the border region it is time for some training on personnel security and what to do in the situation where a break in is in progress. Safe room’s, house fence layout’s, best self protection weapon’s(shotgun,electrified rails.tripwires etc) emergency communication for calling help, and community support groups for rapid response. And what the law allows for self protection.
For the border region this would be very appropriate and let the folks know that the feds are on the American side
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