Arizona jury can't decide if giving water, clean clothes to migrants is a crime

“The question of whether we stand with undocumented people and protect the basic tenets of a healthy society is for each of us to answer."

Rebekah Entralgo
Jun 12, 2019, 9:34 am

Jurors in the trial against humanitarian aid worker Scott Warren were unable to reach a verdict Tuesday, after two days of deliberation. Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona meet again on July 2 to decide whether Warren should again tried before another jury.

Scott Warren was arrested by Border Patrol agents last year in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert for allegedly providing food, water, beds, and clean clothes to undocumented immigrants. The government views Warren’s good Samaritan actions as a felony. He faced up to 20 years in prison on charges of harboring and conspiring to transport undocumented immigrants if convicted — which is prohibited under federal law.

Warren is a volunteer with No More Deaths, an organization that aims to reduce the number of migrants who die on the perilous journey from Central America and Mexico to the United States. They routinely leave water jugs in remote areas of the desert, recover dead bodies, and assist the injured and ill. Prosecutors in Warren’s case, however, argue that he went too far in his kindness.

“They were not injured. They were not sick. They were not resting and recuperating,” prosecutor Anna Wright said Friday. “They were taking their time to get to the place they wanted to get to with all the help they could possibly need.”

https://thinkprogress.org/scott-warren-arizona-hung-jury-migrants-2c10b427181b/

I have just gotta to ask, if anyone on that jury thinks that if they were in that situation, being in desert and someone came to there aid, do they or would they really fucking care............................I think they would want the water...................and this case is costing the taxpayers thousands of dollars.....................................the fucking insanity.........................