The Border Patrol chooses a new target: A volunteer helping migrants
It is the job of U.S. Border Patrol agents to capture people crossing into the country illegally. In Arizona this month, they chose another target: one of the many volunteers who provide food, water and other supplies aimed at helping migrants survive in the desert.
Scott Warren, 35, a faculty associate at Arizona State University and longtime volunteer with aid group No More Deaths, was arrested Jan. 17 near the town of Ajo and charged in federal court with felony alien smuggling.
Immigrant advocates say the charge is retaliation against the Tucson-based aid group, which released a report and videos alleging Border Patrol agents destroyed supplies left for migrants.
"This is really an escalation in the criminalization of humanitarian aid work," said Lee Sandusky, a volunteer with the group, which this week publicized the arrest. "We've long had a tenuous relationship with Border Patrol and other agencies in the borderlands, and there seems to be an uptick in the targeting of humanitarian aid work in the past year."
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For what it's worth I remember Karl Rove who I otherwise despise voicing concern over immigrants dying in the desert when Bush II was is power. The GOP doesn't seem to have an ounce of decency or compassion left.
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