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Leaving Water Jugs In Desert Along Arizona-mexico

Leaving Water Jugs in Desert along Arizona-Mexico

"Humanitarian Aid Is Not a Crime" - Activist Fights Littering Charge for Leaving Water Jugs in Desert along Arizona-Mexico Border

The Sonora Desert along the Arizona-Mexico border is a deadly place. Over the past decade, nearly 2,000 men, women and children died while trying to cross the border into Arizona. Dan Millis is a volunteer with the humanitarian and advocacy organization No More Deaths. In February of 2008, he found the body of a fourteen-year-old girl from El Salvador in the southern Arizona desert. Two days later, as he was leaving gallon-sized sealed jugs of water along the same migrant trails, he was ticketed for littering by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. He refused to pay the $175 fine and fought the littering ticket misdemeanor charge on the grounds that humanitarian aid is not a crime. Ref. Source 4

Arizona-mexico Desert Jugs Water Leaving

I believe he should be charged $175 for each bucket of water he placed in the desert. No one is forcing these illegals to come over the border. We do not need some one helping these illegals out by giving them water along the way.