Border Patrol arrests ASU instructor who gave food, water to immigrants

[mainer]

Source: Associated Press

PHOENIX (AP) - A volunteer for group that offers aid to immigrants crossing the desert has been arrested in southern Arizona. He is also an instructor at Arizona State University, the school confirmed to 12 News.

The arrest of Scott Daniel Warren on a federal harboring charge came several hours after the group No More Deaths released videos last week showing some Border Patrol agents kicking over water bottles left for immigrants...

Warren is an ASU instructor currently teaching an online environmental studies course...

Group volunteer Caitlin Deighan stopped short of calling the arrest retaliation, but says she believes it looks suspicious to have charged Warren so close to the release of the videos.


Read more: http://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/border-patrol-arrests-asu-instructor-who-gave-food-water-to-immigrants/75-510612053?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5a66a1b004d30167260f3011&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitt

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This man is a hero. If he needs funds for his legal defense, I would certainly donate.

[Farmer-Rick]

1. Nothing says Christian Nation like arresting people who are helping the least among us.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. This is what fascism looks like.

[BillyBobBrilliant]

3. Arizona Revised Statutes.

13-1201. Endangerment; classification

A. A person commits endangerment by recklessly endangering another person with a substantial risk of imminent death or physical injury.
B. Endangerment involving a substantial risk of imminent death is a class 6 felony. In all other cases, it is a class 1 misdemeanor.

[El Mimbreno]

9. Border nazis...

obviously don't think this applies to their actions. And it's much easier to catch people who are dehydrated or dead.

[mainer]

4. Follow up editorial with more details:

Volunteer Scott Daniel Warren was busted hours after No More Deaths released its report. Agents said they surveilled a building in Ajo and arrested Warren for providing food, water, beds and clean clothes to a pair of migrants.

The attorney for Warren said that humanitarian groups had a deal with the Border Patrol and the U.S. Attorney's office that such assistance would not get them arrested.

Lawyer Bill Walker said,"We don't smuggle them, we don't do anything to help them enter the United States, we do nothing illegal. This place that they raided is not in the middle of the desert, it's not hidden anywhere. It's in the city of Ajo, and it's been used for a long time, not to help smuggle migrants, but to give medical care and food and water."

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2018/01/22/did-border-patrol-retaliate-against-aid-workers/1056698001/

[EarthFirst]

5. BORDER PATROL AGENTS DESTROY FOOD AND WATER LEFT FOR MIGRANTS

Warren is saving lives. Fact.

[Kali]

10. first time I've ever seen bp even pretend to care about litter

fuckers

[lunamagica]

6. what was the charge?

[Bradical79]

11. Harboring

It's in the 2nd paragraph.

[mainer]

7. It has certainly awakened me to this humanitarian organization: No More Deaths

About No More Deaths
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. We later developed into an autonomous project. Since 2008 we have been an official ministry of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson.

http://forms.nomoredeaths.org/en/

[world wide wally]

8. No wonder they crucified Jesus