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Scott Warren is with “No More Deaths,” a humanitarian group that leaves water, food and meds for migrants who face death in their journey across the hot desert to sanctuary in the U.S. Warren was just tried for conspiracy but the trial ended with a hung jury. Now, the state of Arizona has decided to retry him. Interestingly, Warren’s arrest in 2018 came hours after the group released a scathing video showing the inhumanity of Border Patrol agents dumping out and destroying water that had been left in the desert for migrants. Warren’s defiant response to the retrial is: “Since [my arrest] in January 2018, no fewer than 88 bodies were recovered from the Arizona desert . . . the government’s plan? Policies to target undocumented people, refugees, and their families. Prosecutions to criminalize humanitarian aid, kindness, and solidarity. And now, the revelation that they will build an enormous and expensive wall across a vast stretch of southwestern Arizona’s unbroken Sonoran Desert.” “Providing humanitarian aid is not a crime,” said United Nation human rights experts, who urged U.S. authorities to “immediately drop all charges against Scott Warren.” The American people need to make sure this happens.
