“The criminalization of humanitarian aid work is very frightening,' one worker told Newsweek. “That has wide-reaching implications for many groups of people.”
The jury trial of humanitarian aid worker Scott Warren on felony charges of harboring and transporting undocumented migrants began in Tuscon, Arizona, on Wednesday. Warren is alleged to have acted to “conceal, harbor and shield from detection” a pair of migrants who had illegally crossed into the United States from Mexico by feeding them and providing access to a shelter for several days.
In recent years, organizations like No More Deaths have enjoyed a somewhat cooperative and mutually beneficial relationship with law enforcement agencies. The Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona, in Tuscon, regularly receives requests from ICE to house migrants. But she alleged that the “cooperative relationship” changed after Border Patrol in 2017 raided the Byrd Camp, a medical facility operated by No More Deaths that provided urgent care to migrants injured by an often-treacherous journey through the Arizona desert.
“All of the prosecutions of the No More Deaths activists implicate the kind of basic humanitarian aid that many organizations are giving throughout the country,” Katherine Franke, director of the Law, Rights, and Religion Project at Columbia Law School, told Newsweek. “By the terms of these charges, if someone puts out food or water or any other aid, they risk federal prosecution.”
If rescue workers aren’t protected from federal prosecution due to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which provides legal cover for defendants who acted in furtherance of a sincere religious belief, then advocates are concerned about how the Trump administration may expand its use of prosecution to deter working with immigrants, something that is often conducted under the auspices of a religious entity.
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