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Add an EventTrial against Notorious Border Vigilante Begins Today
When Don discovered that the individuals were vigilantes he
became scared for the safety of the migrants as well as for himself
due to his sympathy for migrants and opposition to vigilante activities.
Don's civil suit charges Roger, Barbara and Donald Barnett with
trespass and impersonating a police officer. Border Action is supporting
another suit against the Barnett's for detaining a Mexican-American
family (news
article) on state trust land.
In March of this year Don joined 300 border residents and immigrants participated in the Border Action delegation to Washington, DC and told members of the US Senate "These Rambo wannabes, have no place in Arizona and our communities. We don't need them here and we don't want them here."
Donations are needed to support this trial and immigrant-led community organizing in Douglas and other border towns. Send checks to Border Action Network PO Box 384 Tucson AZ 85702 or donate securely online at www.borderaction.org
Thanks for the information. I'll be sending a donation to Roger, Barbara and Donald Barnett to help with their legal fees.
I, like most Latino Americans, are sick and tired of the problems the Illegals are causing throughout the United States. They take our jobs, pay no taxes, bankrupt hospitals, crowd our schools, fill or jails.
Enough is enough.
PS: My mother insisted I learn English, not Spanish, so please reply in English, this Nation's Language.
Send donations to the Barnetts! We have to defend them against the Border Action Network mob!
BISBEE — Donald Mackenzie, the plaintiff in a civil suit against anti-illegal-immigration activist Roger Barnett, took the witness stand in Cochise County Superior Court on Thursday and delivered a testimony punctuated by moments of visible emotion.
Mackenzie, under questioning from his attorney, Jesœs Romo V/jar, testified that he became incensed after learning that the three people he found on his monastery’s ranch with a group of Mexican migrants in late 2003 were not law enforcement officials but Roger Barnett; his wife, Barbara; and brother, Donald. “For civilians to track down and capture human beings by force is so against everything I and my people believe in,” Mackenzie said. “So I got upset, I got really upset.”
Barbara and Donald are also defendants in the suit.
Mackenzie told a Superior Court jury that on the date in question, the Barnett men wore outfits similar to Border Patrol agents; that the group of approximately 30 migrant men, women and children with the Barnetts looked frightened; and that Roger Barnett briefly ordered some of the women to stop dousing their heads with water as they drank from Mackenzie’s water well.
more at http://www.svherald.com/articles/2006/06/23/local_news/news4.txt
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