Mother Jones published A Thirst for Justice by Tim Steller in its July/August 2002 Issue.
If you’ve never read the story, it profiles Reverend Robin Hoover. In the 1990s, the Border Patrol cracked down and forced border runners off the beaten path and into desolated areas of the desert. The reasoning went and goes that dying in the desert due dehydration and exposure would deter illegal immigrants. Rev. Hoover and other actionists set-up water stations along these treacherous routes in the name of Humane Borders.
Immigration: Brothers divided on border crossers [ 16 April 2006 Associated Press ] profiles the founder of Humane Borders. John Hunter is Rep. Duncan Hunter’s brother and their attitudes towards border crossers couldn’t be more different. Whilst Rep. Hunter supported legislation introduced last December that could send his brother to prison as a smuggler for his humanitarian deeds, John says that if the law is passed he will disobey it.
On Washington Journal today, a former Sudanese slave condemned the Arab League for holding summits in Khartoum whilst people were dying of thirst in the desert.
“More than 3,000 migrants have died crossing the border since U.S. authorities beefed up enforcement in California in the mid-1990s. Last year, 460 people perished, surpassing the record of 383 set in 2000..”
What’s the difference?