The Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona has ordered one of its members to stop putting out water for migrants who use the reservation to enter the United States.

Mike Wilson has maintained four water stations on the reservation for seven years. He considers it a humanitarian effort to offer water for migrants.

But tribal leaders in the Baboquivari District see it differently. They don't want Wilson to refill the water stations and recently ordered his non-Indian guests to leave the reservation.

"I'm upset that the Tohono O'odham Nation would continue in this — what I consider a crime against humanity," Wilson told The Arizona Daily Star. "That they would take down my water stations."

According to the paper, 70 bodies of migrants were recovered on the Tohono O'odham Reservation in 2007, and 83 were found from January 1 through June 12 of this year.

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Reservation ban of water for migrants is reported (The Arizona Daily Star 9/3)