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Man who left water for immigrants faces prison
AP via SFGate ^ | 12/4/9

Posted on 12/04/2009 7:13:15 PM PST by SmithL

Tucson, Ariz. (AP) -- A judge has threatened to sentence an Arizona man to 25 days in prison for leaving jugs of water in the desert for illegal immigrants.

A federal jury in June convicted Walt Staton of Tucson of littering in the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge.

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Staton is a member of the group No More Deaths, which supports humanitarian aid along the border. He was scheduled to be re-sentenced Friday after he told a U.S. magistrate last month that he objected to the court's punishment on moral and legal grounds.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: enablers; illegalimmigration; illegals; sanctuary
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1 posted on 12/04/2009 7:13:15 PM PST by SmithL
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“prison”

LOL he got 25 days in jail. Hell I did 6 months for drunk driving some years back.


2 posted on 12/04/2009 7:14:48 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: SmithL

thats not right.
once someone makes the decision to cross and they are dying, i’;d say give em some water.


3 posted on 12/04/2009 7:15:04 PM PST by Selmore (Except for ending Slavery, Facism, Communism, and Nazism, War never has accomplished anything)
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To: SmithL

What? No ice?


4 posted on 12/04/2009 7:15:12 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: SmithL

Good. I’m sick and tired of Mexico, its people and their imperialist bullsh!t. This isn’t their country, we aren’t some F’ing Wal-Mart here for their benefit so they can just stroll on in here and we’re supposed to just put up with it.


5 posted on 12/04/2009 7:15:48 PM PST by JoeMac (''Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more''. Popeye The Sailorman)
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To: SmithL

Fine by me.

However, people don’t go to “prison” for 25 days, they go to jail.


6 posted on 12/04/2009 7:16:34 PM PST by Gator113 (Obama is America's First Failed Black Pres-dent.....)
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To: Selmore
once someone makes the decision to cross and they are dying, i’;d say give em some water.

If they know there will be water, they are more likely to make the decision to cross.

7 posted on 12/04/2009 7:18:00 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: Gator113
However, people don’t go to “prison” for 25 days, they go to jail.

It's a federal judge. He'll be going to prison for 25 days.
8 posted on 12/04/2009 7:19:15 PM PST by aNYCguy
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To: Selmore
thats not right. once someone makes the decision to cross and they are dying, i’;d say give em some water.

Why don't you haul your a$$ down there right now!

9 posted on 12/04/2009 7:19:55 PM PST by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: SmithL

We pluck bobbing Cubans out of the Atlantic.


10 posted on 12/04/2009 7:20:27 PM PST by Selmore (Except for ending Slavery, Facism, Communism, and Nazism, War never has accomplished anything)
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once someone makes the decision to cross and they are dying, i’;d say give em some water.

It is one thing to come across a person who is dying of thrist and to give them water.

It is another thing entirely to leave water where you expect a person illegally entering the US will find it aiding them in their crime.

This is the same thing as the coyotes bringing across illegals in their pickups with the exception of profit.

11 posted on 12/04/2009 7:22:06 PM PST by Pontiac
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To: Selmore

Wrong, I did not tell them to start. They should have been dodging bullets when they set their foot across the border.


12 posted on 12/04/2009 7:24:54 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: Selmore
We pluck bobbing Cubans out of the Atlantic.

Only the ones the sharks don't get, and then they are sent home

13 posted on 12/04/2009 7:26:09 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: Selmore

And return them.


14 posted on 12/04/2009 7:27:26 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (Perfection is the enemy of Good.)
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To: org.whodat
Damn skippy!

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

15 posted on 12/04/2009 7:27:53 PM PST by wku man (Who says conservatives don't rock? Go to www.myspace.com/rockfromtheright)
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To: Selmore

I think that the issue is making water available in that area, which becomes a formal asset to illegal penetration of our border security, not a one time incidence of lending assistance to some one in need.

It is also similar to the problem of feeding wild animals until they become dependent, what happens when once an expectation is developed, the water jugs are no longer delivered and placed around, how many people die before the word of mouth spreads?


16 posted on 12/04/2009 7:28:50 PM PST by ansel12 (Scozzafava/Romney 2012)
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To: SmithL
All INVADERS and the treasonous people that abet them are
committing sabotage on our formerly Constitutional Republic!
17 posted on 12/04/2009 7:28:51 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
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To: Selmore
We pluck bobbing Cubans out of the Atlantic.

Again you are finding someone in need. You are not leaving boat out in the Atlantic with the expectation that the Cubans will find it.

And the Cubans are returned to Cuba if they are plucked out of the Atlantic. They only get to stay if they make it to shore unaided.

The Cubans are running from a despotic regime not economic chaos. They are a special case.

If you help the illegals you are aiding and abetting a federal crime.

18 posted on 12/04/2009 7:29:13 PM PST by Pontiac
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To: SmithL

The federal government is also setting up water stations to help illegals make the trip across the border.

The bureaucrats and politicians who came up with the idea should be going to prison too. And for a lot more than 25 days.


19 posted on 12/04/2009 7:30:39 PM PST by Iron Munro (Obami I-Won Kenya-obian says: "This is not your Father's America")
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To: SmithL
"Man who left water for immigrants illegal scumbag criminal aliens faces prison"

AP just can't get anything right, can they?

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

20 posted on 12/04/2009 7:30:53 PM PST by wku man (Who says conservatives don't rock? Go to www.myspace.com/rockfromtheright)
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