Volunteer arrested after border agents seen dumping water

[Ptah]

PHOENIX (AP) - A volunteer for an organization that tries to prevent immigrants from dying in the Arizona desert was arrested several hours after the group released videos showing Border Patrol agents kicking over water bottles left for those crossing into the U.S. illegally.

Scott Daniel Warren, 35, with the group No More Deaths, faces a federal charge of harboring two people in the country illegally. His arrest last week came after Border Patrol agents conducted surveillance on a building where two immigrants were given food, water, beds and clean clothes, according to federal court records.

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

"We see it as an escalation and criminalization of aid workers," Deighan said Monday.

http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/37321689/volunteer-arrested-after-border-agents-seen-dumping-water

[n2doc]

1. I'm sure those agents think of themselves as great Christians

[joshdawg]

2. trump supporters for sure.

[watoos]

3. The great poet

Walt Whitman tended to wounded soldiers, from both sides, during the Civil war.

How far our country is sinking.

[mn9driver]

4. Is it criminal to give food, water and shelter to people now?

Our country has gone insane. I take this as an incredibly bad sign of where we are headed.

[Farmer-Rick]

5. So true

Sanctuary cities are under attack and in many cities you can get arrested for feeding the homeless.

Since feeding and caring for the poor is the biggest image that Christ left behind, you would think the so called Christians would be being arrested left and right for trying to do what Jesus did. You would think it, but you would be wrong.

A Christian today is more likely to be seen insulting and abusing someone from the LGBT community, an immigrant or a woman needing an abortion then caring for the least among us.

[Kali]

8. shelter can be problematic

first aid and water can get you hassled, but is generally ok. this situation is about an organized group so they tend to get "extra" attention

helping someone in distress is still legal and I think you can even still transport to a hospital but not positve about that anymore. fuckers

[Ilsa]

6. Selective harassment or prosecution --

Why aren't they charging employers who hire the "illegals" they arrest on the job? Oh, right, business managed to get that pesky law either overturned or ignored. (Which is it?)

[Nitram]

7. Well, I guess they hadd to arrest somebody to make it look like they are on the job...

[Kali]

9. fuckers