BROOKS COUNTY — The Texas Supreme Court could rule this month on a six-year-old case that is likely to weigh in on the rights of private-property owners whose lands are traversed by undocumented immigrants. Attempting to circumvent a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint near Falfurrias, a driver transported a group of undocumented immigrants across private property where the Mestena group, which includes Mestena Uranium, had a presence. A security guard for the company, Philip Boerjan, spotted the trespassers, and after a brief conversation with Jose Francisco Maciel, the driver, Maciel fled in his vehicle. Boerjan gave chase in his vehicle, and the pursuit resulted in a rollover crash in which Angelina Rodriguez Negrete, her husband and her daughter were killed. Relatives of those killed in the crash filed a wrongful death suit against the company and the landowners, alleging negligence and other claims.
Posted on: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 01:29:48 +0000
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