Sunday, June 9, 2019

The U.N. Comments On The U.S. Crime of Providing Humanitarian Aid

Scott  Warren is awaiting a verdict in his Arizona trial. His crime was to provide humanitarian relief to migrants who walked over the Southwest US border.   He provided two immigrants with food, water, beds, and clean clothes.  Warren founded No More Deaths, an organization critical of the lack of humanitarian aid toward those attempting to cross the Sonoran Desert into the US.  Not coincidentally, Warren's arrest came just after No More Deaths issued a report that implicated border agents in inhuman acts toward migrants.  FBI agents claim that the two migrants were not in distress which is a curious statement about men who had walked thousands of miles and whom Warren says had blisters on their feet.  

The charges against Warren are "harboring of migrants" and "conspiring to transport and harbor migrants."  Warren's activism focuses on providing humanitarian aid and preventing the death of migrants.  Arizona has some of the highest rates of migrant deaths.  

UN experts expressed concern about the prosecution.  “Providing humanitarian aid is not a crime. We urge the US authorities to immediately drop all charges against Scott Warren,” the experts said.  

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/human_rights/2019/06/the-crime-of-providing-humanitarian-aid.html

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