A Tucson non-profit filed a federal claim alleging Homeland Security agents pointed guns at border volunteers before a vehicle pursuit led to them being placed in handcuffs. The volunteers believe they did nothing wrong.
On March 12, Gail Kocourek was driving down the Sasabe border wall, a twice-a-week routine as a volunteer for local non-profit Tucson Samaritans. During her trips, she checks on the camp at the end of the wall that provides humanitarian aid. Along the way, she checks on the Humane Borders water tanks.
As previously reported, the tanks had been vandalized and emptied by vigilantes. Kocourek explained that’s who she thought she was seeing when driving by one of the tanks. She described men in plainclothes standing by the wall near the tanks…