Thursday, August 03, 2006

Arresting The Good Samaritan.

Is this what our country is coming to when saving someone's life gets you arrested? Two volunteers are arrested for helping immigrants who were sick. Anyone ever hear of the "Good Samaritan? I seem to be asking this question all too much lately, but is this Christian?
"It seems like common sense that providing humanitarian aid to someone who is in an extreme medical condition can't be against the law," said Strauss, who grew up on the Upper West Side and attended the elite Fieldston School High School in the Bronx. "The act of saving someone's life shouldn't be something that's prosecuted. It's crazy."

U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Rob Daniels and a spokeswoman for Paul K. Charlton, the U.S. attorney for the District of Arizona, declined to comment. But in court papers, the Border Patrol contended the work of the faith-based group No More Deaths was encouraging migrants to cross illegally into the United States. The agency also contended group leaders were warned volunteers could be arrested. The leaders dismissed the arguments as absurd.

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