Eight Humanitarian Activists Face Federal Charges After Leaving Water for Migrants in the Arizona De

Source: the intercept






January 23 2018, 7:39 p.m.

A faith-based humanitarian group that provides aid and shelter to undocumented migrants on the southwestern border fears it has become the latest target in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration advocates. Eight members of the group, No More Deaths, were charged with federal crimes and misdemeanors in recent months, including one volunteer arrested last week shortly after the publication of a report documenting alleged abuses by the U.S. Border Patrol.

Last week, the Tucson, Arizona-based organization published a report presenting what it described as evidence of Border Patrol agents’ systematic destruction of water jugs left for migrants in the desert, as well as “months of increasing surveillance and harassment” by the agency beginning last year. Hours after the report was published, one of the group’s organizers was arrested in a remote area of Arizona, along with two undocumented immigrants, and hit with felony charges.

According to a complaint filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Arizona, Border Patrol agents conducting surveillance in the town of Ajo observed Scott Warren, 35, and two undocumented immigrants entering a building — referred to as “the Barn” — on January 17, 2018, the same day the humanitarian group’s report was published. The migrants reportedly learned of the Barn’s address, and the sanctuary it was said to provide, through online research.

“Warren met them outside and gave them food and water for approximately three days,” the complaint states, accusing the activist and Arizona State University instructor of also providing the migrants with “beds and clean clothes.”..........................

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/23/no-more-deaths-arizona-border-littering-charges-immigration/

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I don't think anyone can stop ICE and Sessions and Trump--except maybe the courts. Maybe.



Eight Humanitarian Activists Face Federal Charges After Leaving Water for Migrants in the Arizona Desert

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PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA - JUNE 16: Volunteers on patrol with the humanitarian group No More Deaths pass a discarded water jug on a trail used by migrants illegally entering the U.S. from Mexico June 16, 2006 in Pima County, Arizona. Since 1998 over 2,650 men, women and children have died attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. According to the U.S. Border Patrol, a record 473 illegal immigrants died while trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border during the fiscal year that ended September 30, 2005. No More Deaths runs 24-hour camps in the desert conducting search and rescue patrols for migrants in distress. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)