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...crossed ranch property day and night. Several aliens died in those encounters, and ever since, a backlash against vigilantism has been taking hold. Humane Borders wants to rekindle a long tradition of locals' quietly helping along northward-bound aliens with food, water and sometimes a little cash. Father Robert Carney, a priest in Douglas, Ariz., holds prayer vigils at border-crossing points and often goes out into the desert to dispense toiletry kits and water bottles to people crossing over. The Rev. John Fife, an activist in Tucson, has earned three felony convictions for harboring immigrants and now permits...
...Neither Carney nor Fife is particularly happy about the border patrol's informal ties to his group. Fife says it's "the moral equivalent of starting a forest fire and then going in to rescue a couple of people." The clergymen say they will not turn in to the INS anyone who comes to them for aid. Border agent Aguilar sounds just as wary of the partnership. Saving lives is one thing, he says. Helping aliens get across is something else. Says Aguilar: "There is a line they must not cross...
...With reporting by James Carney, John F. Dickerson, Sally B. Donnelly, Douglas Waller and Michael Weisskopf/Washington
...Michael Weisskopf, James Carney and John F. Dickerson/Washington
...Reported by James Carney, Michael Duffy, Viveca Novak and Elaine Shannon/ Washington, Wendy Cole/Oklahoma City and Desa Philadelphia and Amanda Ripley/New York...