Groups plan 3 outposts to aid crossers: (Southern AZ)

Arizona Daily Star ^ | 5/30/04 | Stephanie Innes

[SandRat]

Fresh from a Peace Corps assignment in Haiti, 26-year-old Melissa Kreek last month turned her hopeful attentions to the Mexico-Arizona border. Though she'd just come from the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, the Missouri native was not prepared for the human desperation and suffering she found in the Sonoran Desert.

"I had absolutely no idea of the sheer numbers - between 1,000 and 3,000 people every day crossing the border .............

[SandRat]

And she wants to give c-o-m-p-a-s-s-i-o-n and u-n-d-e-r-s-t-a-n-d-i-n-g and help them break the law.

[dufekin]

Maybe she should help arrange for their immediate deportation--if the Border Patrol is willing to cooperate. It may be outside their narrow realm of jurisdiction.

[SandRat]

Oops! I forgot to click that this was an excerpted story. Ok Click Here to get to the rest of the story.

[Spiff]

Civil Homeland Defense do this (rescue invaders) but they are more efficient because they are mobile. Ranch Rescue used to do this mobile and had a fixed camp location near Douglas. Both groups are/were smarter than the idiots mentioned in the article because they carried necessary defensive arms to protect themselves.

The key difference is that CHD & RR were law-abiding - they called Border Patrol to assist their rescues and to detain and process the border intruders. Yet, the Star and other area media portrayed these groups as evil racist vigilantes and they paint this law-breaking group as heroes.

Imagine this scenario: an intruder becomes sick, finds one of the illegal camps mentioned in this article, and shows up. The try to nurse him back to health but he unexpectantly dies at the camp. How would the area media and law enforcement treat that? Now imagine if the very same thing happened at the Ranch Rescue camp near Douglas. Hell, it would make national news and they would all be arrested. But it wouldn't happen with CHD or RR because they obey the law and call BP.

I say let these morons set up their camps. I want to volunteer to help them (wink, wink). Or at least I want to know where to park my car to see the illegals stream in so I can call Border Patrol.

[ikka]

If you were to walk up and add something to the water that did not kill you but made you throw up/have diarrhea/whatever, eventually illegals would not try to use it, right? And that would effectively negate these jokers, wouldn't it?

[JackelopeBreeder]

It's a forgone conclusion these loons are gonna screw up. They'll sit there and emote and empathize and all that other warm & fuzzy stuff and end up doing something illegal. Maybe you and I can be there to get it on video...

[JackelopeBreeder]

Not a good idea. Puking and/or diarrhea would dehydrate them even further and possibly kill them. The coroner does a thorough autopsy on every dead illegal.

That being said, I know a lot of people here in Cochise County who simply destroy any coyote water caches they find.

[DumpsterDiver]

SandRat, I'm not trying to hijack your thread, but this article ties in with this. It'll be interesting to see if this caretaker really does get evicted. He has ties to good ol' Humane Borders.

County Evicts Canoa Ranch Caretaker Accused of Aiding Illegal Immigrants Crossing Property
Fox11az.com
By Michael Marizco, Arizona Daily Star
May 28, 2004
Excerpt:

CANOA RANCH - Pima County is evicting its Canoa Ranch caretaker for giving food and water to illegal border crossers who cross the property south of Tucson...

Richard Simpson, who took on the unpaid position April 15, has to move out by June 26.

According to notices the county gave him, Simpson is being kicked off the 4,800-acre property for giving food and water to illegal entrants who knocked on his door and for soliciting donations to help cover his expenses to do so on Internet sites sympathetic to entrants.

"I didn't know giving water or a sandwich or a burrito was against county policy," he said.

The agreement he signed with Pima County says he needs to report every instance of trespassing to law enforcement.

Last month, Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 12,000 illegal entrants through the Nogales and Sonoita area, which includes Canoa Ranch, said Rob Griffin, spokesman for the agency's Tucson sector.

"I need donations to help keep supplying the people with food, water and medical supplies," he wrote. Among those receiving the e-mails were members of Humane Borders, a private organization that places barrels of water in the desert to help illegal entrants.

[snowtigger]

There is a totally legal way to stop these deaths. LOCK DOWN THE BORDER If these people are really concerned about the lives of these illegal border crossers, then why don't they work to increase the border patrols to make it impossible for them to reach these "killng zones"?

I believe their motive is not to save lives, but to inflict their political agenda on the rest of us.

[SandRat]

Don't mind in the least.

We in S. AZ along the border are on the FEBA. All we can do is holler loudly (not withstanding the fine work of the ABP that Jackelopebreeder works with) to get everyones attention and KAN KOLBE in the primaries so that we can get Randy Graf in to Congress. He's as hardheaded on this subject as Tom Tancredo is.

[Selene]

Pima County is evicting its Canoa Ranch caretaker

He should be arrested for aiding and abetting