Posted on 05/25/2011 9:32:53 AM PDT by La Lydia
A humanitarian group said on Tuesday it has given emergency GPS location devices to Mexican human smugglers in a controversial bid to save immigrants' lives as they break into increasingly remote desert stretches of the U.S. border this summer. Rev. Robin Hoover, founder of Tucson-based Humane Borders, said he gave five cell-phone sized location beacons to a church group in Mexico's northern Sonora state earlier this month to distribute to human smugglers, known as "coyotes." The aim is for the coyotes to use the devices to summon rescue if they get into trouble as they guide migrants on the dangerous trek through remote desert terrain, where summer temperatures can top 115 F, he said...
Previous initiatives by the group include setting up water stations in the desert and giving out posters warning potentials migrants of the dangers of trekking north through the bleak wilderness, where deaths from exposure are common...
The deaths have risen over the past decade as security has tightened along the border and coincide with a decline in the overall number of arrests made by the U.S. Border Patrol, suggesting that the journey has become more hazardous.
But a spokeswoman for the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson sector warned that the devices would put immigrants at greater risk by giving them a "false sense of security right out in the desert."...
Hoover said the device, a McMurdo Fast Find Personal Location Beacon Model 210, has a five-year battery life. When activated it uses GPS technology to determine its location and sends an emergency signal to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite. When a distress signal is received, local search and rescue personnel are notified....
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traitor—”One who betrays one’s country, a cause, or a trust, especially one who commits treason.”
so he admits this then why is the GOP not wanting and asking for him to be charged?
The smugglers are members of Mexican cartels. The Mexican cartels should be designated as terrorist organizations. Any American a$#*ole that provides aid and comfort to them should be locked up in a maximum security prison.
so he admits this then why is the GOP not wanting and asking for him to be charged?
These do gooding Christians etc are being used and whne they become a minority then they will not have the freedom of what they have now but instead be treated like crap like minorities are in Mexico
Time to wake the hell up America
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The smugglers are members of Mexican cartels. The Mexican cartels should be designated as terrorist organizations. Any American a$#*ole that provides aid and comfort to them should be locked up in a maximum security prison. |
I wonder if the good Rev would like me to provide lockpicks to local burglars.
Empty scrotum.
If by “rescue” they mean chased back over the border, then good.
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Guess who pays every time a device is activated and local search and rescue personnel are notified. Maybe they should send the bill to this Hoover idiot.
Liberals want to commit national suicide - we should offer them the assisted version. Time to take out the liberal trash.
Suicide!? It's outright preconceived murder for profit and power by men who despise the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and everything America used to stand for.
“Tucson-based Humane Borders”, Tucson, humm now WHERE have I heard that name before? Is Tucson a royally FU town?
Hey, before they only had open borders, maps, and water stations. It’s about time we brought them into the technology age.
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This supports child slavery, sex slavery, terrorism,
and criminal actions.
So the US Congress and the Imam Obama are FOR IT.
Should have given the landowners automatic weapons, to protect themselves from these inter-loping law-breakers.
If they were standard GPS units, then that's one thing, but the emergency beacons can be seen as a life-saving device--not one to aid the smuggling itself, but providing aid only when the smuggling fails.
There really should be laws forbidding folks from helping foreign invaders. (eyes rolling)
Can you say ambush? This is the perfect set up for criminals to lure unsuspecting victims.
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