- (AgapePress) - A volunteer organization dedicated to
protecting the private property rights of American citizens says there
is a full-scale war waging on the nation's southern border. One Arizona
rancher says he has had Mexican soldiers on his property.
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- Ranch Rescue is calling it "Operation Thunderbird."
Beginning on November 15, the property rights group will dispatch volunteers
to an Arizona ranch to help a landowner who has been plagued by individuals
crossing over illegally from Mexico onto his property.
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- "He has property directly adjacent to the international
border," explains Ranch Rescue spokesman Jack Foote, "and he
has been having to deal with drug smugglers [and] people smugglers."
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- According to Foote, the landowner also has seen several
incursions of Mexican soldiers on his property in recent months. "He
has encountered armed, uniformed Mexico soldiers on his property three
times in the last two months," Foote says. "They were very heavily
armed."
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- He adds that shots have been fired from Mexico at people
on the property. "There is a full-scale war about to break out on
our southern border, particularly on this one property where we're sending
our volunteers," Foote says.
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- The Ranch Rescue spokesman says his group intends to
document the incursions and apprehend those involved. Operation Thunderbird
is slated to continue into April 2004. In addition to videotaping the incursions,
volunteers will be asked to build what the group calls "physical obstacles"
to ongoing vandalism, and to counter physical threats to the landowner's
family.
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