Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: February 24, 2024, 05:38:43 pm »Thank you!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13118737/Tucson-Samaritans-hold-open-border-migrants-crossing.html
https://www.tucsonsamaritans.org/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13118737/Tucson-Samaritans-hold-open-border-migrants-crossing.html
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Volunteer from Tucson Samaritans is seen holding open hole in border fence and encouraging migrants to walk through as Republicans demand probe into the NGOs 'facilitating the crisis'
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the migrants were transported to an encampment in the Coronado National Forest run by No More Deaths, a non profit working with the samaritans groups.
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'As an organization that has been in existence for more than 20 years, we work to ease suffering and prevent deaths along the US-Mexico Border.
'The situation with asylum seekers offers challenges to everyone to respond in a humane, legal manner.
'This is what we do.'
The non-profit states its mission is 'to offer humanitarian assistance to migrants in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands' and later asserts that 'humanitarian assistance is never a crime.
The organization is sponsored by The Good Shepherd United Church of Christ, a 501(c)(3) charity which means donations are tax deductible.
Meanwhile, Tucson Samaritans says it provides, 'water, food, first aid, and other essential items to migrants who cross the border in southern Arizona.
The organization is supported by Southside Presbyterian Church and spent $13,804 on supplies in 2023, according to its website.
https://www.tucsonsamaritans.org/