The trial of an Arizona border rancher charged with killing a migrant is set to open

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An Arizona rancher is set to go on trial in the fatal shooting of a migrant on his property near Mexico. The Friday trial of 75-year-old George Alan Kelly comes as the national debate over border security heats up ahead of this year’s presidential election.

FILE - George Alan Kelly enters court for his preliminary hearing in Nogales Justice Court in Nogales, Ariz., Feb. 22, 2023. The Arizona rancher goes on trial Friday, March 22, 2024, in the fatal shooting of a migrant on his property near the boundary with Mexico. PHOENIX — An Arizona rancher goes on trial Friday in the fatal shooting of a migrant on his property near Mexico as the national debate over border security heats up ahead of this year’s presidential election.

Kelly shot at a group of unarmed migrants who were walking through his nearly 170-acre cattle ranch in the Kino Springs area, and Cuen-Buitimea was among them, authorities said.Kelly’s lawyer has said her client shot into the air above the migrants and he feared for his safety and that of his wife and the property.Activists rally for bill that would allow some Alabama death row inmates to be resentencedCuen-Buitimea also entered the U.S.

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