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Plan would put water stations near trails used by immigrants

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Tucson News Plan would put water stations near trails used by immigrants
Authorities are seeking comments on the proposal, which would put stations in a southern Arizona wildlife refuge.

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TUCSON, AZ -- Authorities are seeking comments on a proposal to put drinking water stations in southern Arizona's Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge to prevent migrant deaths.

It's an effort to resolve a dispute between refuge officials and humanitarian groups that have left gallon-jugs of water on trails illegal immigrant use southwest of Tucson.

Refuge manager Michael Hawkes tells the Arizona Daily Star that officials tried to reach a happy medium.

No More Deaths co-founder Gene Lefebvre says refuge staffers and representatives of humanitarian organizations have been working on how to position water stations to cause as little impact as possible to sensitive wildlife.

Over the past two years, volunteers from No More Deaths, Samaritans and Humane Borders have received littering tickets for placing water jugs on the refuge.

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That would be called aiding and abetting.

Water stations send the wrong message. They say "Cross illegally"

There should be no water stations.

W

ReggieMay wrote:

That would be called aiding and abetting.

You're absolutely right!

Federal Immigration and Nationality Act
Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii)

"Any person who . . . encourages or induces an alien to . . . reside . . . knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such . . . residence is . . . in violation of law, shall be punished as provided . . . for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs . . . fined under title 18 . . . imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both."

Section 274 felonies under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A):

A person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or local government) commits a federal felony when she or he:

* assists an alien s/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or

* encourages that alien to remain in the U.S. by referring him or her to an employer or by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or

* knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.

Penalties upon conviction include criminal fines, imprisonment, and forfeiture of vehicles and real property used to commit the crime. Anyone employing or contracting with an illegal alien without verifying his or her work authorization status is guilty of a misdemeanor. Aliens and employers violating immigration laws are subject to arrest, detention, and seizure of their vehicles or property. In addition, individuals or entities who engage in racketeering enterprises that commit (or conspire to commit) immigration-related felonies are subject to private civil suits for treble damages and injunctive relief.

Its fine with me as long as a motion detector with video alerts the BP to the IA's presence at the water station.

If the IA's are in a dire situation and need water then the trade off should be water then deportation.

Who are the idiots behind these water stations? While they think they are helping, they are aiding the invasion of our country. NO WATER STATIONS!!!

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Water stations send the wrong message. They say "Cross illegally"

There should be no water stations.

W

Absolutely! They should post signs all along the border, cross at your own risk. NO water, NO shade, extremely hot temperatures, turn back!!

They should not be doing anything to help the aliens come here illegally, but they could put water stations on all the trails that they use if there was a way to catch and deport them when they stop there.

I am the president of Water Station, a group in California who places emergency water on wilderness roads and migrant trails. There are a couple of things I would like to clarify. First, our actions do not constitute aiding and abetting, as those have to involve transporting or harboring undocumented people or providing them with employment assistance. We do not take any position on border legislation, primarily because we are a 501(c)3 and have restrictions on political involvement, but secondly because we have differing opinions among our volunteers.

Our only mission is to save lives.

We have licenses from the Bureau of Land Management and the superintendent of the state park that comprises some of the area in which we work. We cooperate with the U.S. Border Patrol; in fact, I had a meeting last month with the Chief Patrol Agent of the El Centro sector and we agreed to a cooperation plan. I have also met with Alan Bersin, Asst. DHS Secretary.

I have always been fond of vibrant debate on important issues and I am pleased to have the opportunity to offer my unique perspective. Please be thoughtful, though -- remember that you are dealing not just with violations of status laws, but with people's lives.

Thanks

you might not think you are aiding and abetting, but in all reality you are.

its against the law to help or harbor anyone entering or residing in this country illegally.
i would like to see the license you have from the Land management because in arizona the same thing happened in the desert and those people were charged and found guilty of doing the same thing as you claim your doing now.