[lbo-talk] NYT: 2 Illegal Immigrants Win Arizona Ranch in Court

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

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> August 19, 2005
> 2 Illegal Immigrants Win Arizona Ranch in Court
> By ANDREW POLLACK
> 
> 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.

Good job.  Kudos to Southern Poverty Law Center.  

Wojtek