Illegal Immigrant Rescues Boy in Desert

The anti-immigrant lobby (read most of the Christian Right organizations) and wingnut members of the GOP continually depict illegal immigrants - especially those with brown skin - as a scourge of the country. Therefore, it is nice to see a story where one of these "enemies" acts as the good Samaritan and shows up the hate-filled Christianists. I am constantly amazed how those who claim to be Christian seem to hate and despise everyone the least bit different from themselves. Here are some highlights from Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071124/ap_on_re_us/immigrant_rescuer;_ylt=AlrS0wlk8mv83eL7LP2Ayq9vzwcF):

PHOENIX - A 9-year-old boy looking for help after his mother crashed their van in the southern Arizona desert was rescued by a man entering the U.S. illegally, who stayed with him until help arrived the next day, an official said.

The 45-year-old woman, who eventually died while awaiting help, had been driving on a U.S. Forest Service road in a remote area just north of the Mexican border when she lost control of her van on a curve on Thanksgiving, Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada said. The van vaulted into a canyon and landed 300 feet from the road, he said. The woman, from Rimrock, north of Phoenix, survived the impact but was pinned inside, Estrada said.

Her son, unhurt but disoriented, crawled out to get help and was found about two hours later by Jesus Manuel Cordova, 26, of Magdalena de Kino in the northern Mexican state of Sonora. Unable to pull the mother out, he comforted the boy while they waited for help. "For a 9-year-old it has to be completely traumatic, being out there alone with his mother dead," Estrada said. "Fortunately for the kid, (Cordova) was there. That was his angel." Cordova was taken into custody by Border Patrol agents, who were the first to respond to the call for help. He had been trying to walk into the U.S. when he came across the boy.