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TUCSON, Ariz. -- A Tucson-based immigrants' rights group claims a hidden-camera video shows a U.S. Border Patrol agent removing food and blankets intended for illegal immigrants.

No More Deaths officials say the 33-second video is dated Jan. 8 and was shot near Arivaca, about 12 miles north of the international border.

A spokesman for the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector said Thursday that officials are aware of the video and are preparing a response.

Humanitarian organizations leave food, water and blankets on desert trails often traveled by illegal immigrants crossing the Arizona border from Mexico.

The No More Deaths group says temperatures in southern Arizona dropped to record lows between Jan. 9-15. They say blankets and food were left to help prevent death and illness for border crossers in extreme weather conditions.

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    yrreta wrote...
    Really?
    January 17, 2013 2:43 pm
    Part of the deterrent to crossing illegally is the desert. So this group is upset because the patrol agent removed the items they had left for aiding and abetting the people breaking the law, thereby encouraging more to break the law as well? I don't understand how this helps anyone in the long run.
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    yrreta wrote...
    Additionally,
    January 17, 2013 2:48 pm
    if this group really wants to help, why not remove some of the trash that's left behind by the border crossers. They seem to be contributing to the problem anyway. You know, pack in and pack it out.
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    Steve wrote...
    BP was in the right
    January 17, 2013 2:59 pm
    This organization is aiding criminal activity.
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    yrreta wrote...
    So why the hidden camera anyway?
    January 17, 2013 3:19 pm
    Hoping to capture something that they could run to the media with and get some attention? Wanting to determine the number in the traveling party to better adjust the stocking level of the stash site? Looking to make sure the stash is only used by illegals? Doesn't add up.
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    wrote...
    Good
    January 17, 2013 7:28 pm
    We owe these criminals absolutely NOTHING except a boot back where they belong.
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    poolman52 wrote...
    I also have compassion for the less fortunate...
    January 17, 2013 8:00 pm
    But I do get tired of seeing those who follow the rules demonized! I am married to a foreigner. We paid the fees, had background checks. She had the medical screening, so that she was not bringing a disease here. I signed a financial support affidavit that I would support, and they would come after me for any support she got by the the government. The skirting, and avoiding the system, and draining it, will bring us to ruin.
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    HWAGRIDER wrote...
    GOOD!
    January 18, 2013 5:41 am
    Way to go Border Patrol. I do have one question that goes with what yrreta wrote. Do you use that hidden camera to turn the pictures into the Border Patrol so they can get ICE to capture them? If I was walking in the desert and saw a stash like this I would dump the water out or take it with me along with eveything else. Mark it on my GPS and give the coordinates to the Border Patrol to watch and apprehend.
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    lookout wrote...
    this is not
    January 18, 2013 5:59 am
    the motel 6 and we don't leave the lights on for you, die suckers we don't need you here.
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    orichalcem wrote...
    No need for incivility
    January 18, 2013 12:30 pm
    but my position is the same as the other responders here. I wouldn't want to see a single illegal border crosser die if they didn't have to. But much like in the middle east, maybe these people are too ignorant to understand any deterrent other than physical pain/deadly force at or on the border. Maybe that's the only way they would understand...
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    IamPaul wrote...
    Border agent was just picking up trash....
    January 19, 2013 7:52 am
    Cleaning up a bit. He should get a commendation for going above and beyond his duty. The people who leave the that trash in the desert should be fined for littering. I have no problem with immigration, I do have a problem with illegal immigration.

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