Arizona Border Rancher murdered by suspected Mexican Aliens

*It is getting seriously hostile on the Arizona and California border. This is not the only ranch that has been and is under attack by criminal aliens breaking into America. The blood thirsty drug war is leaking onto our soil and the ranchers are going to have to finally fight back to survive. American’s are getting murdered the coyotes and smugglers no longer fear an international incident as they did before.

Krentz family honored with selection into Farming, Ranching Hall of Fame.
35 miles north of Douglas, Arizona near Apache.

http://www.douglasdispatch.com/articles/2008/04/23/news/doc480a84d440a10680616836.txt

Sue and Rob Krentz of the Krentz Family Ranch

Arizona Border Rancher shot and killed by suspected Mexican Aliens last night, 12 miles North of the Border !!!

Border Rancher Rob Krentz And Dog Found Shot To Death After Aiding Illegal Alien

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=15704546335&topic=33854

Late last night two suspected illegal aliens from Mexico trespassed on life-long rancher Rob Krentz’s large
ranch about 35 miles NE of Douglas, AZ and shot and killed Rob and his dog when they went out to investigate. Sheriffs and Border Patrol are still tracking the murderers SOUTH back towards Mexico.

Former Congressman Tom Tancredo is on the scene with the family this afternoon (he knows them personally) and has released a statement demanding that the Obama Administration immediately redeploy the National Guard back to the border. You can see his very interesting and informative posts and updates from the past 8 hours on his Twitter page, TTancredo. www.twitter.com

Local media in Southern Arizona is just starting to report this murder. President Obama obviously thinks we citizens are expendable to keep our southern border wide open to drugs, criminals, and millions of poor, unknown Mexican and Central American citizens!

This border insanity ends NOW! Citizens are demanding that National Guard be deployed to the border in all 4 border states NOW!

STOP THE BORDER ASSASSINATIONS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS NOW!

http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/003355.html

The body of Rancher and American Patriot Rob Krentz and his dog were found shot to death on his ranch. Krentz, who always was good-natured and willing to help people, had called in that he had found an illegal alien at one of his watering holes and was assisting him. That was the last that was heard from him before his body was discovered.

Rob Krentz was a lifelong rancher in Southeastern Arizona, 12 miles north of the U.S./Mexico border and 25 miles northeast of the city of Douglas. He was the father of three children. The ranch has been in his family for three generations, more than 100 years – since 1907, and sits on about 35,000 acres with 1,000 head of cattle. Running a ranch is hard work and with the
influx of illegal aliens increasing, Rob was at ground zero of the stampede that is destroying the fragile desert landscape.

Rob and Susan Krentz

More at the link below, including Krentz’s continuing battle with illegals on his land and threats against his family:

http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/003355.html

Dan Amato, http://www.diggersrealm.com

The Krentz family ranch was featured in an online journal by Tom Tancredo
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
By Thomas G. Tancredo

http://www.proconservative.net/PCVol5Is098TancredoIllegalImmigration.shtml

NEWS RELEASE
March 28, 2010

For Immediate Release

Contact:
Charles Heatherly
303-517-5650
Rocky Mountain Foundation

Tancredo calls for Napolitano to Send National Guard to Border after Murder of Cochise County Rancher

Douglas, AZ — After the brutal murder this weekend of a rancher near the Arizona-Mexico border, former Congressman Tom Tancredo today called on Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to “reject politics and do the right thing and send the National Guard to the border.”
Tancredo was visiting the area when the murder occurred. He spoke Saturday afternoon at a Tea Party rally in Sonoita, Arizona, and met on Sunday with a group of local ranchers concerned about deteriorating conditions on the border.
“As Governor of Arizona, Napolitano deployed the National Guard to help the Border Patrol do its job. Yesterday’s murder of rancher Rob Krentz on his own land 25 miles from the Mexican border makes it clear that that job remains unfinished,” said Tancredo.
“Three days ago, Napolitatno told an audience at Arizona State University that the border is more secure than ever,” said Tancredo. “I challenge her — no I dare her to come to this community and try to sell that lie. The residents here know better.”
Tancredo pointed out that Obama has halted the construction of new border fencing and halted the increase in Border Patrol manpower begun under Bush.
“Now that Obama and Napolitano are talking openly of pushing a new amnesty program, the border invasion has resumed. Mexicans and residents in Guatemala and Honduras read those stories,” Tancredo said. “If Congress takes up an amnesty bill, the flood across the border will be unstoppable.”
Border Patrol spokesmen have confirmed that over the past three months, apprehensions on the Arizona border have jumped over 25% from the same period a year ago after a decline the previous year. The Tucson Sector of the Border Patrol has also confirmed that over 20% of all persons apprehended have prior criminal records in the U.S. The criminal backgrounds of individuals in their country of origin are unknown.

　My prayers and thoughts go out to the family of Rob Krentz.

FOX News Poll on Border Security

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/03/29/border-security/

Mexican outlaws have control…

http://www.azstarnet.com/news/local/border/article_32642381-6314-53b4-aff1-570dbd1d6834.html

UPDATE

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/03/31/reward-offered-arrest-arizona-ranchers-killing/

Arizona rancher Robert Krentz, pictured here in 2008, was killed on his own property 35 miles outside of the border town of Douglas, Ariz.

*Looks like a drug smuggling-related murder. Krentz was killed by a 9mm. A 9mm was stolen from a nearby ranch the day before the murder.

The Arizona Cattle Growers’ Association is offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person who fatally shot a prominent southeast Arizona rancher.
The body of 58-year-old Robert Krentz was located before midnight Saturday on his 35,000-acre ranch about 35 miles northeast of Douglas. He was out checking water line and fencing on the land Krentz’s family has ranched since 1907.
Cochise County authorities believe Krentz was killed by an illegal immigrant who then fled to Mexico. Foot tracks were identified and followed approximately 20 miles south to the Mexico border by county, state and federal authorities.
In addition to announcing the reward money Tuesday, Cattle Growers’ Association officials say a memorial fund has been set up at Wells Fargo Bank to help Krentz’s family.
Reached by phone Tuesday at his family’s ranch, Andy Krentz, Krentz’s oldest son, said his father was a churchgoing man who routinely went out of his way to help those in need.
“My father was a very good family man,” Krentz told FoxNews.com. “He supported his kids, supported his family. He went out of his way to help anybody we could without regarding to who they were. It didn’t matter who they were.”
Sue Krentz, Krentz’s wife, said she was “pretty overwhelmed” by her husband’s death, which coincided with her parents’ deteriorating health.

“This is icing on the cake,” Krentz said.

In 1999, Krentz and his wife told PBS’ Religion & Ethics Newsweekly that the Krentz ranch had been broken into and burglarized of $700 worth of items. Despite the crime, Krentz said he helped any illegal immigrant he could.

“And you know, if they come in and ask for water, I’ll still give them water,” he said. “I — you know, that’s just my nature.”

Locally, Krentz was known as a good Samaritan who often helped injured illegal immigrants who tried to cross the desert in an area where summer temperatures often hit 120 degrees.

Krentz radioed his brother Phil between 10:00 and 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning that he had encountered an illegal immigrant, and was supposed to meet Phil on the ranch at noon, according to sheriff’s deputies. When Krentz didn’t show up, the brother called police, and a search team was soon scouring the sprawling desert 15 miles north of the border, near Douglas, Ariz.

At around 11 p.m., a state police helicopter found Krentz slumped over his ATV, the engine and lights still on. Nearby, his dog lay critically wounded, also hit by a bullet. The dog was put down Sunday morning and will be cremated, its ashes spread on the property along with Krentz’s.

Tracker dogs have now followed the tracks of the killer back into Mexico, some 15 miles south.

Police have several scenarios of what might have occurred.
One, a drug cartel scout. The Chirachua mountains in southeast Arizona are 11,000 feet tall, rugged and remote. It is a popular drug corridor and the killer may have been clearing the way for a load of drugs moving north when Krentz surprised him.
Two, the suspect belonged to a band of thieves terrorizing the remote ranches spattered around the area — an idea supported by other ranchers.
“Two days earlier a 9mm and a 9mm Glock had been stolen from a home in Portal,” said rancher Roger Barnett. “There is no way to know for sure it was the murder weapon. But the bullet the killed Rob and his dog was a 9mm.”
Three, retaliation. The day before the killing, Krentz’s brother Phil stopped a caravan of illegal immigrants carrying 280 pounds of marijuana. All eight were arrested by the border patrol and the pot was impounded.
The odd part, according to local land owners, is that the killer was apparently alone. Illegal immigrants crossing the border usually hire coyotes to help them pass and travel in groups or 5, 10, 20 or more.
“I think Rob came to help this guy, and the moment he put that telephone to his ear, he was shot,” said rancher Richard Humphries, who lives in nearby Elfrida. “It’s happened to me. They don’t want you to call the border patrol.”

Krentz had both a rifle and a revolver, neither of which he used. And both were still with the ATV when his body was found.

Unless the Mexican government finds the killer, Humphrey doubts they’ll ever discover the killer’s motivation.
The bigger question now looming is how — if at all — the rancher’s death will affect the immigration debate.
While Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and other politicians will call once again for the deployment of the National Guard along the border, few here expect the troops to actually carry guns and provide a deterrent effect.
“What would it show? It would show we’re serious about controlling our border, which is not the message this administration wants to send,” Humphries lamented.

Advocates of reform will argue the killing is an aberration and that most illegal immigrants come to work, not commit crime.

And while the ranchers here dispute that, as they see illegal immigrants crossing their land everyday, most in Cochise County expect little more than lip service from Washington.
Rancher Roger Barnett was sued for $32 million for pointing his gun at a group of illegal immigrants. He says that immigration advocates in Washington may argue the border is secure, but that Krentz’s death puts paid to those claims.

“Obama and [Secretary of Homeland Security Janet] Napolitano are dead wrong about our border being secure,” said Barnett.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

700 suspected illegal aliens on just one trail in a 40 day period.
In light of the murder of border area cattle rancher Rob Krentz that occurred over the weekend in Arizona; there is renewed importance in documenting smuggling activity along our porous border with Mexico. An investigation is pending, but early reports tell of a drug bust on the Krentz Ranch the day before the murder. Krentz like many border residents frequently calls in citizen reports on suspicious activity resulting in apprehensions and drug load seizures. In the last few months alone we have seen videos and images showing large scale and heavily armed smuggling operations taking place in broad daylight several miles inside the United States. The following video is a close range record of over 700 suspected illegal aliens on just one trail in a 40 day period. Day or night, rain or snow, they just keep walking north completely undetected by anyone but other than those who place these cameras. The video is 7 minutes long, but worth watching.

Just posted – special video. 700 illegal aliens. No wonder the risk of violence is increasing.

Please help us show it to the whole country.

http://www.borderinvasionpics.com/Invasion.html

Krentz family releases statement on ranchers death

Posted – 4/1/2010 at 1:58PM

The Krentz family released the following statement regarding the recent shooting death of Robert Krentz on his Southern Arizona ranch.

On March 27th, our Husband, Father, Grandfather, Brother and Uncle was murdered in cold blood by a suspected illegal alien on the Ranch.

This senseless act took the life of a man, a humanitarian, who bore no ill will towards anyone. Rob loved his family instilling in them the importance of honesty, fair dealing and skill managing all aspects of a large 100 year old ranching operation producing food to make our country strong and healthy.

He was known for his concern and kindness helping neighbors, friends and even trespassers on his ranch with compassionate assistance in their time of need.

We hold no malice towards the Mexican people for this senseless act but do hold the political forces in this country and Mexico accountable for what has happened. Their disregard of our repeated pleas and warnings of impending violence towards our community fell on deaf ears shrouded in political correctness. As a result, we have paid the ultimate price for their negligence in credibly securing our Borderlands.

In honor of everything Rob stood for, we ask everyone to work peacefully towards bringing credible law and order to our border and provide Border Patrol and county law enforcement with sufficient financial resources and manpower to stop this invasion of our country.

We urge the President of the United States to step forward and immediately order deployment of the active U.S. military to the Arizona, New Mexico Border.

Thank you for all for honoring Rob. We want the truth known.