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06/12/00
Rival Vigilante Groups Duke
it out in Arizona Turf War
- By Victor Payan
- Pocho Neighbor Hood Division
Yuma, AZ - Two rival paramilitary vigilante groups are battling for manhunting
rights in the Arizona borderlands in their efforts to roundup undocumented
immigrants pushed further into the unforgiving Arizona desert by California's
controversial "Operation Grave Keeper."
"This is our border, 'cause we got here first," says Ray Sest,
president of the Jolly Ranchers, a group that has been hunting Mexicans
since 1996. "Those other guys, they're just trying to get apiece of
our media coverage."
The rival group, known as the Twilight 'Zoners for their frightening pre-dawn
raids on taco trucks and watering holes, has been criticized by human rights
groups around the world for their severe tactics used in capturing and
detaining immigrants.
"Sure we use nets, snares and tranquilizer guns," says Vic Gelanti,
leader of the Twilight 'Zoners. "But a lot of our guys are real paramilitary
types, you know: Army reserve, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, truckers.
And we all got SUV's too. Everything we do is standard procedure. And we
gotta work fast or those pesky Mexicans will die before we can get our
hands on them."
Ray Sest disagrees.
"It's getting to be downright dangerous," he says. "You
don't feel safe walking out in the desert hunting Mexicans anymore. A lot
of our guys are getting pretty tan now, too, from the neck up. And some
of them have black hair. Hell, I got detained by the Twilight 'Zoners myself,
and I'm as white as Charlie Sheen."
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