{"id":276649,"date":"2011-02-22T23:39:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T23:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/22\/death-for-us-migration-activist\/"},"modified":"2011-02-22T23:39:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T23:39:01","slug":"death-for-us-migration-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/22\/death-for-us-migration-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"Death for US migration activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div readability=\"23\">\n        \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>22 February 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>18:39 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An immigration activist has been sentenced to death for the 2009 murder of a nine year-old-girl and her father.<\/p>\n<p>Shawna Forde, 43, organised a break-in at the Arizona home of Raul Flores apparently to fund her group, which campaigns against illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<p>But the burglary went wrong and 29-year-old Mr Flores was shot dead along with his daughter Brisenia.<\/p>\n<p>Forde was convicted of first-degree murder. Her alleged accomplices have yet to be tried.<\/p>\n<p>She was was also convicted of attempted murder and robbery.<\/p>\n<p>The girl&#8217;s mother, Gina Gonzales, survived being shot and later identified her attackers.<\/p>\n<p>During the trial, the jury was told the young girl had pleaded with her attackers to not fire on her, but was still shot in the head.<\/p>\n<p>Forde and two men dressed as police officers forced their way into Mr Flores&#8217; home in Arivaca, 10 miles (16km) north of the Mexican border.<\/p>\n<p>She apparently believed there were drugs on the premises and had planned to sell them to fund her group of so-called border vigilantes, known as the Minutemen American Defense.<\/p>\n<p>Forde began her own group after reportedly being expelled from the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a national volunteer group which monitors US borders for illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Albert Robert Gaxiola and Jason Eugene Bush, Forde&#8217;s alleged accomplices, are scheduled to go on trial later this year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.envisionstar.com\/aff\/9324\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/4462ccf1aff-banner.gif\" alt=\"EnvisionStar Hosting\" title=\"EnvisionStar Hosting\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-us-canada-12543297\" title=\"Death for US migration activist\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Death for US migration activist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 22 February 2011 Last updated at 18:39 ET An immigration activist has been sentenced to death for the 2009 murder of a nine year-old-girl and her father. Shawna Forde, 43, organised a break-in at the Arizona home of Raul Flores apparently to fund her group, which campaigns against illegal immigration. But the burglary went wrong and 29-year-old Mr Flores was shot dead along with his daughter Brisenia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Death for US migration activist - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/22\/death-for-us-migration-activist\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Death for US migration activist - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"22 February 2011 Last updated at 18:39 ET An immigration activist has been sentenced to death for the 2009 murder of a nine year-old-girl and her father. 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