Video surfaces of Border Patrol agents dumping water left for migrants
A humanitarian-aid group is claiming that water jugs placed near the United States-Mexico border in southern Arizona were destroyed by U.S. Border Patrol agents.
The Tucson-based group, No More Deaths, released a video Wednesday that showed Border Patrol agents dumping and kicking water jugs. No More Deaths said its workers placed over 31,600 1-gallon water jugs for border crossers from 2012 to 2015. The group said more than 3,000 of the those jugs were destroyed by Border Patrol agents.
The video is part of a three-part series being conducted by the group, that aims to “share our response to the to the current crisis of death and disappearance on the U.S.-Mexico border”. No More Deaths began documenting its self-proclaimed lifesaving work one year ago and claims that the remains of 151 migrants were found in Arizona, since filming began.
No More Deaths said Border Patrol agents should face disciplinary actions for destroying aid that is supplied for border crossers.
“We demand an immediate end to the destruction or removal of water, food, blankets and any other humanitarian-aid supplies left for border crossers,” A statement in the group’s release said. “We also demand an immediate end to any interference with humanitarian-aid efforts.”
The group said its focusing efforts on making a policy that “formally prohibits the destruction of humanitarian-aid supplies and establishes that it be subject to disciplinary action.”
