According to Customs and Border Protection, San Diego Sector leaders have emphasized to agents that they should neither remove nor destroy humanitarian aid left in the Otay Mountain Wilderness. The incident is now under investigation.
Early on a recent Saturday morning, a group of humanitarian volunteers hiked, slipped and scaled steep rocks down an Otay Mountain trail marked by Electrolit bottles and clothing left behind by migrants.
According to Customs and Border Protection, the parent agency to Border Patrol, San Diego Sector leaders have emphasized to agents that they should neither remove nor destroy humanitarian aid left in the Otay Mountain Wilderness. The incident is now under investigation, the agency said. David Greenblatt, 50, chief of surgery at Sharp Coronado Hospital and a long-time volunteer with San Diego water-drop organizations, recalled a time more than five years ago when the volunteers similarly found their water jugs slashed. But by adjusting drop locations and applying social media pressure to Border Patrol, Greenblatt said, the volunteers were able to get the destruction to stop.
“It became very, very obvious there was a pressing need for us to focus on providing and leaving supplies in these areas because there were so many emergencies and so many deaths that have occurred in this area over the last several years,” Greenblatt said. “All of this heated rhetoric, political rhetoric that we hear about that characterize migrants as criminals, as dangerous cartel criminals, it really is not borne out by our direct experiences doing this work,” he said. “The people that we encounter are just regular folks, often not prepared for the incredibly difficult and hazardous journeys that they undertake in the deserts in the mountains.
They made their way down to the three locations, then spent a little time enjoying waterfalls by the final drop site before turning around and heading back up the mountain.Every water bottle was poured out, every can of food opened, with some of the beans smeared on the socks. According to Greenblatt, some of the supplies smelled of urine.
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