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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 12 June 2019

Jury can’t decide on charges against Arizona border activist

torney was detained ear- searched her cellphone. precedent by expanding
lier this year after stopping Border activists say they the definition of the crimes
her car on a dark highway worry about what they see of transporting and har-
to pick up three young mi- as the gradual criminaliza- boring migrants to include
grants who flagged her tion of humanitarian ac- people merely trying to
down. tion. help border-crossers in des-
Teresa Todd was held Warren has said his case perate need of water or
briefly, and federal agents could set a dangerous other necessities.q

Scott Warren, center, speaks outside federal court, Tuesday,
June 11, 2019. in Tucson, Ariz., after a mistrial was declared in
the federal case against him.
Associated Press
By ASTRID GALVAN Outside the courthouse,
Associated Press Warren thanked his sup-
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A U.S. porters and criticized the
jury could not reach a ver- government’s efforts to
dict Tuesday against a bor- crack down on the number
der activist charged with of immigrants coming to
conspiracy to transport the U.S.
and harbor migrants in a “Today it remains as nec-
trial that humanitarian aid essary as ever for local
groups said would have residents and humanitar-
wide implications on their ian aid volunteers to stand
work. in solidarity with migrants
Defense attorneys argued and refugees, and we must
that Scott Daniel Warren, a also stand for our families,
36-year-old college geog- friends and neighbors in
raphy instructor, was sim- the very land itself most
ply being kind by providing threatened by the milita-
two migrants with water, rization of our borderland
food and lodging when he communities,” Warren said.
was arrested in early 2018. Glenn McCormick, a
He faced up to 20 years in spokesman for the U.S. at-
prison. torney’s office in Arizona,
But prosecutors maintained declined to comment on
the men were not in distress whether Warren will face
and Warren conspired to another trial. The judge set
transport and harbor them a July 2 status hearing for
at a property used for pro- the defense and prosecu-
viding aid to migrants in an tion.
Arizona town near the U.S.- Warren is one of nine mem-
Mexico border. bers of the humanitarian
The case played out as hu- aid group No More Deaths
manitarian groups say they who have been charged
are coming under increas- with crimes related to their
ing scrutiny under President work. But he is the only one
Donald Trump’s hardline to face felony charges.
immigration policies. In West Texas, a county at-