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10-03-2008, 08:35 PM #1
Supervisors to discuss funding water stations for illegal im
Supervisors to discuss funding water stations for illegal immigrants
GARRY DUFFY
Tucson Citizen
Funding to maintain water stations for illegal immigrants in the Sonoran Desert outside of Tucson will be a topic for action at Tuesday's meeting of the Pima County Board of Supervisors.
The supervisors will consider a $25,000 grant to Humane Borders to assist the non-profit agency to continue to place and maintain water stations for illegal border crossers and others in danger of dying of thirst in remote areas.
The board has annually voted to provide such financial assistance to Humane Borders since 2001.
The annual allocation discussion by supervisors draws both supporters of the program and critics.
Backers say Humane Borders' 90-plus water stations save the lives of persons striking through the desert, especially in hot weather months where sun exposure and temperatures can kill.
Opponents say the stations serve persons entering the United States illegally, and may provide illegal crossers with a false sense of security that they can indeed expect to find the water stations.
Some of the water stations have been vandalized.
County officials point to reasons beyond humanitarian for helping the pay for the water stations: It costs less to do so than pay the costs to recover, store, and repatriate the bodies of illegal crossers who die in the desert.
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10-03-2008, 08:42 PM #2
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Isn't this aiding and abetting? Aren't they just encouraging more folks with the coyotes to try the desert. If this council agrees to this funding, they should be arrested. Sorry, I have no sympathy for these illegals, who know they are breaking our laws in the first place, breaking all kinds of laws when they are here and demand rights and clemency for their plight. Their only plight is economic and perhaps the inadequacy of their governments at home. Well, folks, we have had an inadequate government for years, but we are not running to Latin America.
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