{"id":1627433,"date":"2022-08-30T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T23:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1627433"},"modified":"2022-08-30T19:34:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T23:34:52","slug":"illegal-immigration-keeps-arizona-cattle-ranchers-armed-awake-at-night-on-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illegal-immigration-keeps-arizona-cattle-ranchers-armed-awake-at-night-on-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Immigration Keeps Arizona Cattle Ranchers Armed, Awake at Night on the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fillegal-immigration-keeps-arizona-cattle-ranchers-armed-awake-at-night-on-the-border%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1627433&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>This is the third article in a series on illegal drug and human smuggling along Arizona\u2019s border with Mexico.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PALOMINAS, Ariz.\u2014Cattle ranchers Joe and Patty Scelso didn\u2019t always feel the need to carry sidearms walking on their property.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-eight years ago, the Rockin JP Ranch was their dream of a country homestead come true\u2014103 acres of lush grassland, towering cypress, and low-slung mesquite framed with distant green mountain peaks.<\/p>\n<p>It was a quiet place\u2014perfect for raising a small herd of cattle and staging rodeos.<\/p>\n<p>Today, their dream has gone south as illegal migrants continue marching north through the unfinished border wall fence with Mexico just two miles from their property in Palominas, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/30\/DSC03287-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Joe Scelso, owner of the Rockin JP Ranch in Hereford, Ariz., fixed a damaged wire fence on his property on Aug. 24. (Allan Stein\/The Epoch Times) <\/p>\n<p>The illegals use their land with abandon as a way station waiting for cars\u2014even taxis\u2014to come and pick them up.<\/p>\n<p>They come at \u201call hours,\u201d Joe Scelso said, sitting on his front porch, watching ominous thunderclouds gather on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>At least for now, the monsoon rains have stemmed the constant flow of illegals onto their land.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were coming in here\u2014one, two, three at a time,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople will come out of the bushes, pick them up, and drive them out of here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI finally put up that gate to keep them [out], but they keep coming through the gate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The trash the illegals leave behind includes used feminine hygiene products, diapers, toilet paper, and human feces\u2014\u201dyou name it,\u201d Scelso told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever they don\u2019t need or want, they throw on the ground. Now, they all wear camouflage. They never used to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/30\/DSC03330-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> A step ladder straddles an electrified fence near the border wall fence in Hereford,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third article in a series on illegal drug and human smuggling along Arizona\u2019s border with Mexico. PALOMINAS, Ariz.\u2014Cattle ranchers Joe and Patty Scelso didn\u2019t always feel the need to carry sidearms walking on their property. Twenty-eight years ago, the Rockin JP Ranch was their dream of a country homestead come true\u2014103 acres [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}