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Border Stories: Water In The Desert
“Each year, hundreds of thousands of migrants try to cross illegally into the United States through the hot, remote Sonoran desert. Since 1993, nearly 2,000 of them have died. That’s according to Humane Borders, a faith-based organization in Tucson whose primary mission is to provide drinking water to crossers in an effort to head off potentially fatal dehydration.
In the seven years since Rev. Robin Hoover, the pastor of Tucson’s First Church of Christ, co-founded Humane Borders, it has expanded from two water stations to 90. Hoover claims that the stations have made a statistically significant reduction in the number of migrant deaths in the area.The promise of those reductions was enough to convince Pima County officials to issue Humane Borders a $25,000 annual contract to expand its work. The county reasoned that the water stations reduced spending on emergency rooms and morgues, amounting to a marginal savings.Volunteers Chuck Ashley and Jack Steindler, respectively 76 and 85 years-old, made the rounds one recent morning to check the water levels in four of Humane Border’s water stations. Along the way, they explain what drew them this work and why putting water in the desert makes sense even though it is there for those crossing the border illegally.”

Border Stories: Water In The Desert

“Each year, hundreds of thousands of migrants try to cross illegally into the United States through the hot, remote Sonoran desert. Since 1993, nearly 2,000 of them have died. That’s according to Humane Borders, a faith-based organization in Tucson whose primary mission is to provide drinking water to crossers in an effort to head off potentially fatal dehydration.
In the seven years since Rev. Robin Hoover, the pastor of Tucson’s First Church of Christ, co-founded Humane Borders, it has expanded from two water stations to 90. Hoover claims that the stations have made a statistically significant reduction in the number of migrant deaths in the area.

The promise of those reductions was enough to convince Pima County officials to issue Humane Borders a $25,000 annual contract to expand its work. The county reasoned that the water stations reduced spending on emergency rooms and morgues, amounting to a marginal savings.

Volunteers Chuck Ashley and Jack Steindler, respectively 76 and 85 years-old, made the rounds one recent morning to check the water levels in four of Humane Border’s water stations. Along the way, they explain what drew them this work and why putting water in the desert makes sense even though it is there for those crossing the border illegally.”

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