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TUCSON, Ariz.-- The Pima County Board of Supervisors has agreed to continue to pay for water stations in the desert to aid illegal border crossers.
The board voted 4-1 to give $25,000 from the contingency fund to Humane Borders, which maintains 80 water stations in Southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
This is the sixth year Pima County has funded the stations.
Most of the money goes to maintain and operate a fleet of water trucks, driven by volunteers who test, sterilize and replenish water supplies every day.
Several anti-illegal-immigration activists objected to the spending.
"The only humane borders are borders that work," said Roy Warden, a protester who attended the board meeting. "By providing water stations, you are only enticing people to their deaths."
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