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84-Year-Old Arizona Border Rancher Plagued by Mexican Cartel Activity
Breitbart ^ | 02/24/2023 | Randy Clark

Posted on 02/24/2024 1:50:21 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Jim Chilton and his ancestors have been involved in ranching in Arizona since the late 1800s. In recent years, the aging rancher has been forced to divide his time between running a successful cattle business and keeping a watchful eye out for cartel smuggling on his remote border ranch south of Arivaca, Arizona.

Chilton sometimes finds himself helping migrants in distress and, at other times, keeping a sharp eye out for the cartel smugglers and foot guides that push hundreds or thousands of migrants and narcotics across his land.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: arizona; border; cartel; crime; enemyinvasion; invasion; rancher
This is heartbreaking.
1 posted on 02/24/2024 1:50:21 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I say turn that ranch land just over the border into a high
munitions test range.

Scatter shot over the whole thing without notice.


2 posted on 02/24/2024 1:59:32 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Claymores would be a nice touch too.


3 posted on 02/24/2024 2:03:07 PM PST by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Someday we hopefully will have a president that will militarize the border and declare it a free fire zone.


4 posted on 02/24/2024 2:06:21 PM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: Dutch Boy

Agreed...


5 posted on 02/24/2024 2:14:37 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Of course if he defends himself and family, Bidet* will go after him without hesitation.


6 posted on 02/24/2024 2:16:11 PM PST by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Welcome to Joe Biden’s America.


7 posted on 02/24/2024 2:24:24 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That’s wild-ass, god forsaken no mans’ land. No change since the Apache wars. Stuff happens out there that is never known until maybe a hundred years later when someone stumbles on skeletons.


8 posted on 02/24/2024 2:40:17 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Heartbreaking yes...but, hard to feel sorry for him if he is putting up fountains for the parched illegals.


9 posted on 02/24/2024 3:11:38 PM PST by mouse1
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’ll bet there are beaucoup SEALS and Green Beanies out there that would love to take out the Cartel pukes and thugs if somebody would pay for the ammo.


10 posted on 02/24/2024 3:16:41 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (John Oliver is a racist liberal biatch.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We aren’t right on the border but I have discussed with my husband that if we ever had any problem we would just dig ditches and put sharp bamboo in the bottom.


11 posted on 02/24/2024 3:18:26 PM PST by tiki
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To: thegagline

“Someday we hopefully will have a president”

That day better come soon.


12 posted on 02/24/2024 3:36:05 PM PST by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If I were him, I might say I’ve had a good life, I’m at an age where I have little left to lose, then take my savings and buy a minigun and a ton of ammo and go to town on the next wave of invaders that shows up on my property.


13 posted on 02/24/2024 3:44:27 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: noiseman

He has family, though. He wouldn’t be the only one involved.


14 posted on 02/24/2024 4:01:54 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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