Volunteer Tim Doherty inspects an empty water jug, cast off by immigrants crossing into Arizona from Mexico, on July 31, 2010, near Green Valley, Arizona. Doherty conducts patrols for the nonprofit Samaritans, delivering water to points near the border
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Daniel Millis, a volunteer with the faith-based organization No More Deaths, was arrested in 2008 for littering. His crime: leaving bottles of drinking water on trails near the Arizona-Mexico border so immigrants walking through the desert would not die of thirst.
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned Millis' conviction, by a 2-1 vote. It was an important ruling. However the immigration debate works itself out, we do not want to be a country that puts humanitarians in prison for giving water to people dying of thirst./.../
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