"‘Los Samaritanos’ aid immigrants; Arizona group defies law, gives food, water" by Peter Slevin, Washington Post | June 6, 2010
GREEN VALLEY, Ariz. — At a time when state and federal governments are focused on tightening the border to keep out immigrants who illegally cross from Mexico, Shura Wallin and her colleagues help people who make the trip. They leave water and food along well-known foot trails. They distribute maps that show the water sites and search for trekking migrants. Sometimes, they find bodies....
Wearing T-shirts that said, “Humanitarian aid is never a crime,’’ they crossed the tracks and ducked into a thicket of trees and scrub brush that offered shelter from the blistering sun and the Border Patrol alike, picking up empty water jugs and scouting for evidence that people had recently been there....
Unless it is GOING TOWARDS and SMALL STRIP of DIRT called GAZA!!!!!
“Most of the people we find are broken, beaten down, sobbing, so lonesome, broken. They just want to go home,’’ said the Rev. Randy Mayer, pastor of Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, home to Los Samaritanos. “We’re just trying to stop people from dying. Somebody will say, ‘What don’t you understand about ‘illegal?’ Well, it’s more complicated than that.’’
Actually, no it is not.
The Palestinians are already home (let the suffering illegals go back if they miss theirs), and they are far from beaten or broken.
Sorry, Israel, you have failed -- and the harder you push that boot on throat the more you hasten your own demise.
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The debate over the border has intensified since the murder of Cochise County rancher Robert Krentz, who some suspect was killed by an illegal immigrant, and Arizona’s adoption of a law that empowers police to request identity papers from anyone suspected of being here illegally....
Of course, as an AmeriKan citizen I HAVE TO CARRY MY PAPERS (or drivers license or SOME PHOTO ID to get a check cashed, etc, etc, etc).
And if I WERE TO VISIT MEXICO?
Would they be as lenient with a foreigner (answer: no way)?
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Also see: Israel's Solution to Illegal Immigration
Man, those guys really are above reproach!
