Trial begins for US rancher accused of killing migrant
Los Angeles (AFP) - The trial of a rancher accused of killing a Mexican migrant on his property in Arizona began Friday, as tensions mount in the United States over an inflow of migrants across the southern border. George Alan Kelly, 75, is charged with second-degree murder for the death of Mexican Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea, 48, on his property in the border town of Nogales in January 2023. During opening arguments Friday in a southern Arizona courtroom, the rancher's defense attorneys claimed that Kelly was eating lunch that day when he saw a group of men walking on his land with backpacks and ri...