Keep America beautiful?[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TUCSON -- Walt Staton, a volunteer with Arizona's No More Deaths, faces a year in prison after his June conviction for "littering." His crime? Staton deposited reserves of clean drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. in the Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (bwā`nəs ī`rēz, âr`ēz, Span. bwā`nōs ī`rās), city and federal district (1991 pop. National Wildlife Refuge  National Wildlife Refuge , where
undocumented migrants often make a perilous desert crossing (see stats
below).
"By penalizing life-saving work," NMD NMD Neuromuscular disease, see there responded, "the United States is showing callous disregard for the lives of our neighbors to the south, whose only crime is to seek a better life." The group vows to continue to provide aid to migrants and "to do our part to clean up the desert." |
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