politics @lemmy.world · 7 months ago

Republican bill would let AZ ranchers shoot and kill border-crossers on their property

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Republican bill would let AZ ranchers shoot and kill border-crossers on their property

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politics @lemmy.world · 7 months ago

Arizona Republicans want to let ranchers in southern Arizona legally shoot and kill undocumented immigrants who cross their land.

As a once-kid who used to take shortcuts across open ranch land, this bill would give land owners a license to kill:

The bill comes as an Arizona rancher awaits trial after he was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and aggravated assault for killing 48-year-old Gabriel Cuen-Butimea after he shot at a group of unarmed migrants walking through his 170-acre ranch outside of Nogales. Under its provisions, 73-year-old George Alan Kelly would have been justified for allegedly killing any of the migrants.

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What a wonderfully evil law from the country’s most regressive and evil lawmakers: legalized murder.

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