I’m assuming helping people cross the border illegally is against the law, right?
Via Arizona Daily Star:
Immigrant-rights activists have set up water stations, gone out nearly daily to find border crossers in distress, and circulated warning posters and maps of the locations of those who have died in the desert.
All with the goal of stopping the deaths of immigrants trying to cross into the United States.
Now Robin Hoover, founder and former member of the local group Humane Borders, is planning to distribute 100 high-intensity flashlights.
Hoover will work today with a local church in Altar, Sonora, 115 miles southwest of Tucson and one of the last staging areas for would-be border crossers, to pass out the $8.32 flashlights that can illuminate a tree a half-mile away and include both a strobe and an S.O.S. function.
“I hope that this simple device will help save lives,” he said Thursday during a news conference at El Tiradito Shrine in downtown Tucson, as he held the small black flashlight under a plastic water bottle to show how it created a prismatic effect.
Hoover, who spoke for a small group of volunteers working on several migrant safety initiatives, said they also plan to travel to the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, which borders McCallen, Texas. The Rio Grande Valley is seeing a surge in people trying to cross the border illegally and a spike in migrant deaths.
HT: Drudge