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Border Patrol agents were filmed dumping water left for migrants. Then came a ‘suspicious’ arrest.

January 24, 2018 at 9:08 a.m. EST
Clips compiled from 2010 to 2017 by advocacy group No More Deaths show U.S. border agents destroying supplies left for migrants. (Video: No More Deaths / Storyful)

Last Wednesday, a nonprofit group that provides humanitarian aid to migrants in the Arizona desert released a lengthy report alleging Border Patrol agents were intentionally destroying supplies left for migrants in the desert, the group said, to “condemn border crossers to suffering, death and disappearance.”

What received wider attention, however, was a video that the Tucson-based aid group, No More Deaths, also distributed with its report. The footage, taken between 2010 and 2017, showed Border Patrol agents kicking over water jugs that had been left in the desert. In one clip, a male agent sneers at the person filming him, demanding to know whom the water is for, as he empties a gallon bottle of water onto the ground.