Scott Warren was found not guilty at his re-trial last month.
"He was accused of providing the men with food, water, clean clothes, and a place to sleep over three days. A month later, a grand jury indicted him on two counts of harboring and one count of conspiracy. If convicted and sentenced to consecutive terms, Warren could serve up to 20 years in prison."
Governments and right-wing propaganda intentionally confuse the categories of helping and trafficking migrants. This article is especially relevant right now in light of the Scot Warren and Pia Klemp cases making the news.
"the border zone is home to 65.3 percent of the entire U.S. population, and around 75 percent of the U.S. Hispanic population"
Scott Warren was arrested after he helped migrants – but he’s a humanitarian aid worker trying to save lives in a place where so many find death.
Scott is the ninth No More Deaths volunteer to be arrested for giving water to thirsty migrants.
A three-part report on the migration crisis at the US-Mexico border (Part III scheduled to be released this year). Each part accompanied by a video summary.
"The Disappeared report series is collaborative project between two Tucson-based organizations, La Coalicion de Derechos Humanos and No More Deaths. [...] . Our research goals are transformative: to expose and combat those US government policing tactics that cause the crisis of death and mass disappearance in the borderlands."
Looks like a good organization. They've published several reports on the mistreatment of migrants by law enforcement at the Mexican border.
"No More Deaths is a humanitarian organization based in southern Arizona. We began in 2004 in the form of a coalition of community and faith groups, dedicated to stepping up efforts to stop the deaths of migrants in the desert and to achieving the enactment of a set of Faith-Based Principles for Immigration Reform."
50,000 Haitians are losing their Temporary Protected Status.
"As the only U.S. immigration program that grants legal rights to migrants in response to environmental disasters, the fate of the program should be seen as a de facto test case for how the world’s wealthiest country, and its largest historical emitter of greenhouse gases, is going treat the coming waves of climate refugees.
"So far, the message is clear: Go back to a hell of our making."
Shane Bauer bought a rifle and spent several days patrolling the AZ-Mexico border with some "three percenter" militia groups.
The Chapo Trap House guys interviewed him about this story: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-81-the-devil-in-mother-jones-feat-shane-bauer-21217
Walworth residents resist immigration raid. Also covered by Vice: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/immigration-raid-police-fight-822
"Since 2000, more than 27,000 migrants and refugees have died attempting the perilous journey to Europe. With an unprecedented number of people breaking through its heavily barricaded borders in 2014, the EU continues to fortify its frontiers."
"One of the two lead contractors for Israel’s apartheid wall in the occupied West Bank, Elbit Systems, has won a $145 million contract from the US Department of Homeland Security to provide similar systems on the Mexico-US border."
"In the face of official inaction, dozens of Palestinian organizations recently issued a call for ordinary people around the world to mark ten years since the ICJ ruling by making July the month of action against the apartheid wall."
"This weekly round of deportations at the NWDC comes as Ramon Mendoza Pascual and J. Cipriano Rios Alegria continue their hunger strike in medical isolation, under solitary confinement sentences."
"A man facing deportation from Sweden has been granted a temporary reprieve after fellow passengers aboard his flight to Iran prevented it from taking off by refusing to fasten their seat belts."
"The barbarity of US immigration and deportation policy has led to the reemergence of mass border crossings."
"This shift toward more radical actions points to the ticking time bomb that is our deportation machine. Around six hundred people get deported to Tijuana every day, a great number of them ending up on the streets, with nowhere to go, often without a peso in their pockets and with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Under such a barbaric immigration and deportation regime, it should be little wonder that mass migrant actions are making a comeback."
The hunger strike has spread to another GEO Group facility in Texas, while only two prisoners remain on strike in Tacoma:
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/03/19/3105791/hunger-strike-down-to-2-detainees.html
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