Becuase Everything Else Sucks

We Don’t Need No Water, Let the Migrant Workers Burn

By Manila Ryce
Published Saturday, June 17th, 2006, 5:48 pm
Filed under: Society/Culture: Immigration, US Politics

Humane Borders refills water tanks daily along the Mexico/America border. These tanks are meant to save lives, and are placed in areas where most migrants crossing the dessert have died of dehydration. 30-foot poles with blue flags mark the stations. However, the water stations have increasingly been targeted by anti-immigration activists.

The flags marking the sites have been removed, and the tanks themselves have been drained or pierced by bullet holes. Some people like Russ Dove applaud the vandalism. He claims that Humane Borders is encouraging illegal crossings. “These are robbers, rapists, murders. This is simply aiding and abetting criminal activity,” Dove said.

My problem with people like Dove is that they’re honestly defending the decision to keep water from a dying person. These stations are set up so that immigrants who have already made the choice to cross the border don’t die of thirst. Murder is murder, regardless of some imaginary line these “Americans” feel gives them the right to do so. If someone is dying of dehydration we all have a moral obligation to help them. A ridiculous sense of nationalism has overtaken the human decency of these vandals. Would they consider giving medical treatment to a dying fugitive as aiding and abetting a criminal as well?

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