All he'd need is one or two runs per week.
Posted on 03/02/2024 6:50:50 PM PST by Morgana
ohn Ladd's phone is an archive of life on a ranch beside the Arizona border with Mexico.
He scrolls past photographs of handsome Red Angus and cross-bred Hereford-Brahman cattle, picture after picture of Donald Trump's 30ft border wall that spans about six-and-a-half miles of his land. Then he stops at an image of a tree.
'That's a rape tree,' he said, pointing out the women's clothes thrown into the thorny branches.
'Almost all the women who come across get raped by their guides, who then they throw their underwear in the trees.'
The trees have been spotted up and down the border. Academics talk of them as warnings or trophies in the brutal symbolism of violent gangs.
Ladd, 68, has been a rancher all of his life. In the past 30 years he has learned about such savage displays, as well as the patterns of migrants who cross the border and the cartels who control turf on the other side.
His 16,000 acres lie in the busiest part of the entire border. Border Patrol agents in the Tucson sector recorded 250,000 apprehensions in just the first four months of the fiscal year — almost a 200 percent increase on last year.
His family has kept cattle here for four generations or 127 years.
These days he keeps count of the dead bodies he has found on his land — 17 in total (not counting those found on the 60ft strip of federal land at the border). They are migrants who succumbed to the desert heat in summer or the cold in winter or whose hearts gave out or the victims of violence.
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What are other creative animals here?
I have one..
A big cat sanctuary. Panthers, Tigers, ect
Thanks Jorge Bush, Jeb! Bush and Joe Biden
bttt
Buy deer stands from Cabelas and let volunteers man them with their weaponry. I am sure their would be an ample supply of men to man the stands, along with me.
All he'd need is one or two runs per week.
Why buy them? I’m sure people would volunteer to build stands all over the place for free. Ones with solar panels, ac and small fridge.
And charge for permits! If people will pay hundreds of dollars to shoot a deer out of state they ought to pay $5K to shoot coyotes. Even split between the landowners and the CBP beer fund.
Fire ants.
First and foremost, my recommendation would be to update his armory.
Do you have to shoot them in the leg?
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