Video footage shows a volunteer asking a border patrol agent: ”Is it in your job description to slash water and open cans and dump food all over the wilderness area?'
“With all these winter storms we've been having, you can just imagine how cold and wet travelers can get hiking through the mountains at night when the temperature drops down to the 30s,” said Greenblatt. “Anything that we think could bring relief to somebody out in the desert or the mountains.”“Every single bottle of water was poured out,” said Greenblatt. “Every single bottle of Gatorade poured out, every can of food opened up and dumped into the mud.
“We raced up the mountain, which was about a 45-minute, normally 40-minute hike,” said Emmet Daler Norris, a volunteer with the group. “We did it very fast, as fast as possible, we ran up a mountain to try to see whoever did this because it felt like a deliberate act of purposeful harm.” Video footage shows a volunteer asking one of the agents: ”Is it in your job description to slash water and open cans and dump food all over the wilderness area?"In a statement to NBC 7, Customs and Border protection said:
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