Aid groups hails US ruling on water for immigrants

[Kadie]

Aid groups hails US ruling on water for immigrants

– 13 mins ago


LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Aid groups welcomed Friday a US court ruling that leaving bottled water in the desert to help illegal immigrants hiking across into the United States from Mexico is not a crime.

The appeal court in Las Vegas this week overturned the conviction of an activist for "littering" by leaving the bottles of drinking water on known migrant trails on the Arizona border with Mexico.

Hundreds of thousands of hopeful illegal immigrants try to cross the parched Mexican border into the United States every year, but many die in the blistering heat before making it to the safety of towns and cities.

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In a ruling Thursday, the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals quashed the conviction of Dan Millis of group No More Deaths, who was convicted in September 2008 for leaving bottled water in a key migrant area.

The Las Vegas ruling concluded that the bottles of drinking water do not constitute "garbage" because they have the humanitarian purpose of preventing death by exposure.


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A volunteer displays a water jug set out for immigrants crossing into Arizona from Mexico along a backcountry trail on July 2010 near Green Valley, Arizona. Aid groups welcomed Friday a US court ruling that leaving bottled water in the desert to help illegal immigrants hiking across into the United States from Mexico is not a crime.
(AFP/Getty Images/File/John Moore)

[jkshaw]

1. I pray the aid groups hide them effectively

in obscure places known only to the immigrants so no yahoo anti-immigrant, Jan-Brewer follower finds one and poisons it! I can see these all-American thugs doing something like that.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. I have seen such caches shot up and the jugs empty