Yeah, Right, Whatever

An Arizona ranch once owned by a member of an armed group accused of terrorizing illegal immigrants has been turned over to two of the very people the owner had tried keep out of the country.

That is the only time in the entire news piece that you'll hear Edwin Alfredo Mancia Gonzales and Fatima del Socorro Leiva Medina referred to as "illegal immigrants". The rest of the time, they're called "immigrants" or not referred to at all. And I think that's important in this debate.

What Casey Nethercott was accused of doing was wrong, no doubt about that (although I do find it interesting that the jury deadlocked on whether or not he actually assaulted the men, but convicted him on a weapons charge). Violence is not a way to solve this particular problem.

That being said, there is something fundamentally wrong with people who were breaking the law being awarded money because someone broke the law in order to stop them from breaking the law. If I was the judge, I'd call them even. Deport Medina and Gonzales back to El Salvador and plop Nethercott in jail for the weapons charge. Don't encourage them.