News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Saturday, August 12, 2006

Pa. Guard member dies while on duty at Arizona-Mexico border

Aug 12, 12:24 AM EDT

YUMA, Ariz. (AP) -- An Army National Guard member from Pennsylvania died after collapsing in 104-degree heat during a mission to spot illegal immigrants along the Arizona-Mexico border, officials said Friday.

Spc. Kirsten Fike, of Warren, Pa., died Thursday, a day after collapsing only two hours into the first day of a border surveillance mission near Yuma.

She had deployed on Saturday with about 60 members of the 28th Military Police Co., based in Greensburg, Pa.

Fike was among a team of four soldiers working a 12-hour mission watching the border for illegal crossings. She collapsed while helping put up netting that had blown down, officials said, and a combat medic and combat lifesaver gave her initial care until she was transported to the Yuma Regional Medical Center.

posted by missionaryman | 4:20 AM

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