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Posted by PHX - Joyce E. Downey on Tuesday May 25, 2004 at 1:23 am MSTRobin Hoover May '03 on MSNBC:
"The very first stations we put out there carried with them a requirement from the Department of the Interior that we actually have a public information program in Mexico detailing the exact location with maps to would be crossers so that they would know where to cross..." [a requirement?! can you believe this?]
Humane Borders collaborate with other local faith communities to provide humanitarian aid to migrants,[illegal aliens] and to work for changes in INS policies to the benefit of undocumented [illegal aliens] immigrants.
Not only have they installed at least 44 [Oct. '03] 30 gal. water stations with shelter, but they also provide food, and medical assistance. PLUS, they collect and transport shoes, socks and winter clothing to the border.
The funds for the water stations are provided through donations or by various organizations, INCLUDING Pima County, which contracts with Humane Borders to maintain the water stations at a cost of $50,000 a year.
Many of the whackos in Humane Borders are veterans of the Sanctuary Movement, including rev. John Fife.
In 1986 Fife, the minister of Tucson's Southside Presbyterian Church, was among eight activists convicted on various alien-smuggling charges, stemming from an underground railroad the group operated for refugees from civil war-torn Central America.
Fife served five years' probation for his efforts. Today, the minister says a new assistance movement called Humane Borders is "just beginning to be organized, as Sanctuary was in the very beginning.
This is what the criminal Fife is still up to:
"Whether simply providing food and temporary shelter, or breaking the law by hiding and transporting [illegal] immigrants, "is up to each individual," Fife says.
"This is going to be a movement that says 'Help as you feel it's appropriate, given the situation.' In my experience, some people are willing to give transportation, and some are just willing to give a glass of water."
Some of the members admit to harboring them. They call them "pilgrims."
They also say that turning them over to BP is like leading lambs to slaughter.
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