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Two Arizona Samaritans Who Help Asylum Seekers at Border Seek Damages for Mistreatment by DHS

HeadlineJul 14, 2025
Image Credit: Tucson Samaritans

In Arizona, two Tucson-area volunteer aid workers are seeking damages after Homeland Security agents dressed in plain clothes pointed assault-style rifles at them, handcuffed and detained them along a border wall road in March. Seventy-four-year-old Gail Kocourek, who regularly assists asylum seekers at the border with water, food and medical supplies, is well known and friendly with the regular border agents in the area. She was driving a vehicle with a “Samaritans” logo on it at the time of the incident in March.

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