Subject: txt immig - 
A group of California artists are developing a GPS-enabled cellphone to help dehydrated illegal migrants find water - and regale them with poetry - as they trek through harsh deserts into the United States.
The designers - three visual artists on UCSD's faculty and an English professor at the University of Michigan - are undeterred as they criticize a U.S. policy they say embraces illegal immigrants for cheap labour while letting them die crossing the border.
The effort is being done on the government's dime - an irony not lost on the designers whose salaries are paid by the state of California.
"There are many, many areas in which every American would say I don't like the way my tax dollars are being spent. Our answer to that is an in-your-face, so what?"
[The attitudes of the 'higher educated'.]
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