{"id":19915,"date":"2017-02-21T02:12:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T02:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19915"},"modified":"2017-02-21T02:12:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T02:12:50","slug":"hunters-seek-to-blame-illegals-for-their-own-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19915","title":{"rendered":"Hunters seek to blame &#8216;illegals&#8217; for their own blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/huntingguidesphoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19916\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/huntingguidesphoto-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/huntingguidesphoto-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/huntingguidesphoto-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/huntingguidesphoto.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can hear the chants now: <em>only in Texas<\/em> would this happen.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, maybe not. Anyhow, here&#8217;s the crux of it.<\/p>\n<p>Two hunters &#8212; Michael Bryant and Walker Daughetry &#8212; have been charged with discharging deadly weapons illegally.\u00a0They accidentally <em>shot each other<\/em> while\u00a0on a hunting excursion in Presidio County along the Rio Grande River.<\/p>\n<p>But wait! The shooting took place in early January. When they called\u00a0for help, they then blamed the incident on &#8220;illegal aliens&#8221; they said were crossing the border.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out they lied to investigators. There were no &#8220;illegal aliens.&#8221; They had discharged their weapons &#8220;in the direction of others,&#8221; meaning each other, which is a third-degree felony.<\/p>\n<p>It gets even better than that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs7.com\/content\/news\/Hunting-guides-charged-in-connection-to-Presidio-County-ranch-shooting-413885063.html\">Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller,<\/a> the loudmouth advocate for building a wall along our state&#8217;s border with Mexico,\u00a0posted the\u00a0bogus story on his Facebook page. Miller &#8212; who had been considered for a spot in Donald J. Trump&#8217;s Cabinet &#8212; said the incident proves the need to build the wall, per the president&#8217;s persistent mantra.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the truth has come out. The\u00a0hunters made it up. They were too embarrassed to tell authorities what really happened.<\/p>\n<p>Miller&#8217;s Facebook post has since disappeared. The two men\u00a0face some jail time if they&#8217;re convicted.<\/p>\n<p>Is this what one would call &#8220;fake news&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can hear the chants now: only in Texas would this happen. Maybe, maybe not. Anyhow, here&#8217;s the crux of it. Two hunters &#8212; Michael Bryant and Walker Daughetry &#8212; have been charged with discharging deadly weapons illegally.\u00a0They accidentally shot each other while\u00a0on a hunting excursion in Presidio County along the Rio Grande River. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19915\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hunters seek to blame &#8216;illegals&#8217; for their own blunder<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,18],"tags":[5350,1424,2239,4270,6710],"class_list":["post-19915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-build-a-wall","tag-donald-trump","tag-illegal-immigrants","tag-sid-miller","tag-tda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19917,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19915\/revisions\/19917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}