Pima County (Tucson) still funding border water stations

The Board of Supervisors in Pima County, Arizona (home of Tucson) yesterday voted to continue providing water stations in the desert designed for use by illegal aliens:

...The Board of Supervisors voted 4 to 1 Tuesday to give $25,000 from the contingency fund to Humane Borders, which maintains 80 water stations in Southern Arizona and northern Mexico. This is the sixth year Pima County has funded the stations... Several members of Humane Borders, wearing their trademark blue-and-white T-shirts featuring the Big Dipper constellation full of water, were in the audience, but they did not speak. The group submitted a paper done in conjunction with the University of Arizona that outlined its use of mapping software to track migrant deaths and come up with ways to prevent more deaths.

If they really wanted to do that, they'd work to discourage attempts to cross the border in the first place. They could do that by, for instance, highlighting companies that employ illegal aliens, discussing Mexico's agenda, and the like.

HB has done the opposite. The water stations encourage people to attempt to cross the desert. But, they wanted to go even further and, as the last link discusses, pass out maps showing the best places to cross.

Their efforts make it more likely that someone will try to cross. Either they're unable to figure that out, or they figure that increasing illegal immigration is more important than what they claim to oppose.

Immigration · Wed, 09/20/2006 - 11:04 · · Importance: 1