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July 3, 2019

Arizona Prosecutors Will Retry Activist Scott Warren for Helping Migrants
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In Arizona, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday they will retry
humanitarian activist and No More Deaths volunteer Scott Warren, after a
jury refused to convict him last month for providing water, food, clean
clothes and beds to two undocumented migrants crossing the Sonoran
Desert. Prosecutors have, however, dropped the conspiracy charge against
Warren. Prosecutors will repeat their case against Warren in front of a
jury in November. If convicted, Warren could face up to 10 years behind
bars. This is Warren responding to the news Tuesday in front of the
federal courthouse in Tucson.

Scott Warren: "While I do not know what the government has hoped to
accomplish here, I do know what the effect of all this has been and will
continue to be: a raising of public consciousness, a greater awareness
of the humanitarian crisis in the borderland, more volunteers who want
to stand in solidarity with migrants, local residents stiffened in their
resistance to border walls and the militarization of our communities,
and a flood of water into the desert at a time when it is most needed."

We'll have more on this later in the broadcast with Catherine Gaffney of
No More Deaths.