Illegal alien murders Arizona rancher

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edited April 2010 in A Moving Train
http://www.azstarnet.com/news/local/cri ... 03286.html

While investigators don't have a motive yet, retaliation has been raised as a possibility, Dever said. The day before the shooting, the victim's brother, Phil Krentz, reported drug smuggling activity on the ranch to the Border Patrol.
Agents found 290 pounds of marijuana on the ranch and followed tracks to where they found and arrested eight illegal immigrants, said Border Patrol Tucson Sector deputy chief Robert Boatright. None were prosecuted because of a lack of evidence. They were all in custody when the shooting occurred, he said.

Maybe someday a government that is elected will do something about this, although I doubt one will anytime soon.
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  • StarfallStarfall Posts: 548
    Legalize marijuana. That'll take care of the problem.
    "It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go." - Neil Gaiman, "Stardust"
  • unsungunsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    That makes no sense. They will just run cocaine/heroin/whatever else up the pipe. That is not the answer.
  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    unsung wrote:
    Maybe someday a government that is elected will do something about this, although I doubt one will anytime soon.

    So, what is your solution to stop the cross country drug running?
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  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    unsung wrote:
    Maybe someday a government that is elected will do something about this, although I doubt one will anytime soon.

    So, what is your solution to stop the cross country drug running?

    About 20 old F-14's armed to the teeth with old military ordnance and use them to patrol the borders,
    the drug lords across the border have a endless supply of fire power and the only way to put a dent
    in drug trafficing across the border is to out gun them and a old F-14 would do just that. :D

    Godfather.
  • unsungunsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    I'd bring the National Guard back from Iraq and stick them on the southern border.

    That border and the people crossing it are more of a threat to this country than Iraq.
  • ShawshankShawshank Posts: 1,018
    unsung wrote:
    I'd bring the National Guard back from Iraq and stick them on the southern border.

    That border and the people crossing it are more of a threat to this country than Iraq.

    +1
  • FiveB247xFiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    If we cut off the border completely as some of you think, do you realize the impact on our economy?
    CONservative governMENt

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  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    unsung wrote:
    Maybe someday a government that is elected will do something about this, although I doubt one will anytime soon.
    relax, obama is tackling immigration next. assuming the republicans don't play ball again, which they probably won't since it is a southern issue and they won't even help their own if it means government involvement and increased taxes to patrol said borders....but yeah, blame the government... :roll: :lol:
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  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    unsung wrote:
    I'd bring the National Guard back from Iraq and stick them on the southern border.

    That border and the people crossing it are more of a threat to this country than Iraq.
    i support this too. but i think we are going to need that national guard in places like michigan for when these militia guys start attacking cops and blowing shit up...
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    unsung wrote:
    I'd bring the National Guard back from Iraq and stick them on the southern border.

    That border and the people crossing it are more of a threat to this country than Iraq.

    I agree... I'm not crazy about closing off the boarders for undocumented workers, but I'm all for cracking down on the drugs going across our boarder.

    Legalize pot, and focus our efforts stopping the smuggling of the hardcore drugs.
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  • cajunkiwicajunkiwi Posts: 984
    unsung wrote:
    That makes no sense. They will just run cocaine/heroin/whatever else up the pipe. That is not the answer.

    It's such a shame that they bring drugs into America and then have to stand around wondering why nobody will buy them.

    The war on drugs has to be fought on two fronts - you've got to take care of supply and demand at the same time, or else you'll never come close to fixing the problem.
    And I listen for the voice inside my head... nothing. I'll do this one myself.
  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    cajunkiwi wrote:
    unsung wrote:
    That makes no sense. They will just run cocaine/heroin/whatever else up the pipe. That is not the answer.

    It's such a shame that they bring drugs into America and then have to stand around wondering why nobody will buy them.

    The war on drugs has to be fought on two fronts - you've got to take care of supply and demand at the same time, or else you'll never come close to fixing the problem.

    that's true, we have to start somewhere and cutting off the supply will cut down the demand.
    it's sad that there will always be drug problems of some sort.

    Godfather.
  • Pepe SilviaPepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    Godfather. wrote:
    cajunkiwi wrote:
    unsung wrote:
    That makes no sense. They will just run cocaine/heroin/whatever else up the pipe. That is not the answer.

    It's such a shame that they bring drugs into America and then have to stand around wondering why nobody will buy them.

    The war on drugs has to be fought on two fronts - you've got to take care of supply and demand at the same time, or else you'll never come close to fixing the problem.

    that's true, we have to start somewhere and cutting off the supply will cut down the demand.
    it's sad that there will always be drug problems of some sort.

    Godfather.


    obviously the US government has no intention or desire to do this since we are protecting 1 of the biggest, if not the biggest, heroin trafficker in the world with our tax money in afghanistan
    don't compete; coexist

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  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
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    and not even obama can stop it. :roll:

    Godfather.
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    I don't know how to stop it. Do you think cutting off the supply completely will help, or is education and treatment at home a better option?
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  • puremagicpuremagic Posts: 1,907
    Drug trafficking and illegal crossings, especially via Arizona and Texas are lucrative enterprises for the landowners, businesses and officials along the US border. 90% of the time, the only reason to kill is greed or betrayal, because drugs and illegals are replaceable. Why do you think there is no outcry from small businesses to large corporations for immigration reform!!! Hell, I-10 and I-95 are the drug toll roads of America [AZ, TX and FL], nothing like untraceable money to make you look the other way, or stop the construction of a wall.
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  • Kel VarnsenKel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    I don't know how to stop it. Do you think cutting off the supply completely will help, or is education and treatment at home a better option?

    I don't think you can cut off the drug supply of any illegal drug completly. And everytime you make it smaller by those making record setting drug busts, all you do is increase the price that the dealers can sell what they still have for. I mean everytime I see one of those police press conferences where they have a bunch of bricks of coke laid out on a table, all I can think of is how the price of cocaine just went up and the dealers and suppliers are going to make more money.
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    I don't know how to stop it. Do you think cutting off the supply completely will help, or is education and treatment at home a better option?

    I don't think you can cut off the drug supply of any illegal drug completly. And everytime you make it smaller by those making record setting drug busts, all you do is increase the price that the dealers can sell what they still have for. I mean everytime I see one of those police press conferences where they have a bunch of bricks of coke laid out on a table, all I can think of is how the price of cocaine just went up and the dealers and suppliers are going to make more money.
    Exactly. So I think you need to TRY to slow demand.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • Pepe SilviaPepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    I don't know how to stop it. Do you think cutting off the supply completely will help, or is education and treatment at home a better option?

    I don't think you can cut off the drug supply of any illegal drug completly. And everytime you make it smaller by those making record setting drug busts, all you do is increase the price that the dealers can sell what they still have for. I mean everytime I see one of those police press conferences where they have a bunch of bricks of coke laid out on a table, all I can think of is how the price of cocaine just went up and the dealers and suppliers are going to make more money.
    Exactly. So I think you need to TRY to slow demand.


    have you seen the documentary the american drug war by kevin booth?

    http://americandrugwar.com/

    i see he has a new movie coming out, too

    anyway, the american drug war is really good and takes a look at how drugs are treated in the us, canada and the netherlands. it says the netherlands actually has a lower % of teens and young adults that smoke pot than the us and lower hard drug use.

    it's ridiculous to think we spend tens of billions a year on the war on drugs on top of what the states pay
    don't compete; coexist

    what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?

    "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama

    when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
    i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
  • unsungunsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    relax, obama is tackling immigration next. assuming the republicans don't play ball again, which they probably won't since it is a southern issue and they won't even help their own if it means government involvement and increased taxes to patrol said borders....but yeah, blame the government... :roll: :lol:

    yeah he is going to offer them amnesty. F-THAT.
  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    unsung wrote:
    relax, obama is tackling immigration next. assuming the republicans don't play ball again, which they probably won't since it is a southern issue and they won't even help their own if it means government involvement and increased taxes to patrol said borders....but yeah, blame the government... :roll: :lol:

    yeah he is going to offer them amnesty. F-THAT.

    ha ha yeah he'll just print up more money to cover them :lol:

    Godfather.
  • Pepe SilviaPepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    smithfield uses a lot of undocumented workers, then calls the ins on them when they want to get rid of them. halliburton did, too, with the contract to clean up after katrina. then when they asked to be paid halliburton had them deported

    so halliburton had a lot of the work done for free and pays 0 US taxes on that money, what a scam!
    don't compete; coexist

    what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?

    "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama

    when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
    i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
  • StarfallStarfall Posts: 548
    Godfather. wrote:
    unsung wrote:
    Maybe someday a government that is elected will do something about this, although I doubt one will anytime soon.

    So, what is your solution to stop the cross country drug running?

    About 20 old F-14's armed to the teeth with old military ordnance and use them to patrol the borders,
    the drug lords across the border have a endless supply of fire power and the only way to put a dent
    in drug trafficing across the border is to out gun them and a old F-14 would do just that. :D

    Godfather.

    Or, you can do what FDR did and repeal Prohibition. It did two very important things -

    1. Put liquor back into the normal economy, enabling governments to raise revenue by imposingt taxes and
    2. Broke the back of the Chicago gangs that made their money off illicit booze.

    I guarantee you if marijuana is decriminalized, it will do similar things for us. Marijuana is 70% of the revenue for these Mexican drug gangs - remove that revenue, and they'll collapse, like the Prohibition era gangs.

    PLUS, it will alleviate the huge overcrowding in our prisons AND free up our law enforcement to go after REAL criminals, not the guys who spend all day harmlessly tripping out over pot. And without the drug gangs using undocumented workers to ferry their stuff over the border, illegal immigration will drop.

    Besides, decriminalization of marijuana in gonna be on the ballot in California this fall... don't forget to vote. :D
    "It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go." - Neil Gaiman, "Stardust"
  • The trouble with this story is that it's speculation.

    No one actually witnessed the murder.

    I live near D.C. and how the misinformation spread with the sniper.
  • Pepe SilviaPepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    Starfall wrote:

    Or, you can do what FDR did and repeal Prohibition. It did two very important things -

    1. Put liquor back into the normal economy, enabling governments to raise revenue by imposingt taxes and
    2. Broke the back of the Chicago gangs that made their money off illicit booze.

    I guarantee you if marijuana is decriminalized, it will do similar things for us. Marijuana is 70% of the revenue for these Mexican drug gangs - remove that revenue, and they'll collapse, like the Prohibition era gangs.

    PLUS, it will alleviate the huge overcrowding in our prisons AND free up our law enforcement to go after REAL criminals, not the guys who spend all day harmlessly tripping out over pot. And without the drug gangs using undocumented workers to ferry their stuff over the border, illegal immigration will drop.

    Besides, decriminalization of marijuana in gonna be on the ballot in California this fall... don't forget to vote. :D


    sometimes i think with the amount of money we've spent fighting it and how many lives we've fucked with we just refuse to say we were wrong or sorry. like when the navy shot down that iranian airliner and vp bush said he refused to apologize.

    and think of how many people would have to be released from jail. what about all their stuff that was confiscated and sold? can they sue over being imprisoned for years?

    it's the same as it was when alcohol was illegal, it puts the market in the hands of criminals.

    as is pointed out in that doc i mentioned earlier, instead of being able to go to a business that has laws over it, like selling tobacco or alcohol to minors in the US, you're creating this vacuum that is filled with a lot of people that don't care how young the person is, what's in it.....

    we need better education, this lumping it in with heroin, crack, meth....is ludicrous and if anything is harmful because when a kid tries pot and thinks it's nothing like they told him what's stopping him/her from thinking they lied about other drugs?
    don't compete; coexist

    what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?

    "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama

    when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
    i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
  • unsungunsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    The trouble with this story is that it's speculation.

    No one actually witnessed the murder.

    I live near D.C. and how the misinformation spread with the sniper.

    The victim told his brother over the radio it was an "illegal alien". I doubt he confused him with E.T.
  • arthurdentarthurdent Posts: 969
    Starfall wrote:
    Legalize marijuana. That'll take care of the problem.

    bbbzzzttt.


    Wrong. Legalizing marijuana will only cause the criminal elements in Mexico to shift to more, violent, crimes such as kidnappings.
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  • arthurdentarthurdent Posts: 969
    Starfall wrote:
    I guarantee you if marijuana is decriminalized, it will do similar things for us. Marijuana is 70% of the revenue for these Mexican drug gangs - remove that revenue, and they'll collapse, like the Prohibition era gangs.


    [citation needed]


    These drug gangs are purely criminal enterprises. Remove pot, and they'll just move on to something else.
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  • arthurdentarthurdent Posts: 969
    unsung wrote:
    I'd bring the National Guard back from Iraq and stick them on the southern border.

    That border and the people crossing it are more of a threat to this country than Iraq.

    The U.S. border with Mexico is roughly 1969 miles.
    The U.S. border with Canada is roughly 5528 miles.

    There are roughly 88,00 army, navy, coast guard, air force and marines stationed in Iraq.
    That would equal roughly 11 soldiers per mile of U.S. border.
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  • arthurdentarthurdent Posts: 969
    smithfield uses a lot of undocumented workers, then calls the ins on them when they want to get rid of them. halliburton did, too, with the contract to clean up after katrina. then when they asked to be paid halliburton had them deported

    so halliburton had a lot of the work done for free and pays 0 US taxes on that money, what a scam!

    that's one part of the solution. Go after the businesses that hire illegal immigrants. Hard.
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