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Judge: Providing Water to Dying Immigrants in Desert is a Crime
http://therealnews.com/stories/judge-providing-water-to-dying-immigrants-in-desert-is-a-crimeDate Written: 2019-02-02 Publisher: Real News Network Year Published: 2019 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX23364 Activists who leave water near the US-Mexico border have been found guilty of various charges. Others in similar situations are still awaiting trial. Abstract: -- Excerpt: In Tucson, Arizona, a US Magistrate handed guilty verdicts against four No More Deaths activists, who were leaving water for border crossers, along the US-Mexico border. The activist group calls the decision a retaliation for releasing an incriminating report about the Border Patrol. A fifth activist faces an upcoming trial and potentially decades in prison... As part of the Trump administration's ramping up of prosecution and anti immigration enforcement push, on January 18, four "No More Deaths" activists were found guilty of different charges. They were detained for being on Cabeza Prieta, a protected 860,000-acre refuge without a permit, and for trying to leave water for immigrants crossing the desert.... What we saw this week was criminalization of being able to put out water in the West desert in a corridor where hundreds of people have died and countless more disappeared in the last five years. We're really concerned by the judge's ruling that seems to prohibit being able to put out water in an area where people are dying of thirst. |