Columbia Law Professor Comments on Federal Court Conviction of Four Migrants' Rights Activists for Leaving Water and Food in the Arizona Desert

Authors

Law, Rights, and Religion Project, Columbia Law School

Project

Law, Rights, and Religion Project

Document Type

Document

Publication Date

1-2019

Abstract

On Friday afternoon, January 18, 2019, Magistrate Judge Bernardo Velasco found four activists with the group No More Deaths/No Más Muertes guilty of violating federal law for leaving water and food in the desert for migrants in the Cabrieza Pietra National Wildlife Area, a federally controlled refuge in the Southern Arizona desert where human remains of migrants are frequently found. The case signals the Trump administration’s resolve to prosecute migrants’ rights activists as aggressively as possible, even in relatively minor cases such as this one where the activists were charged with what amounts to “littering.”

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Law | Religion Law

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Law, Rights, and Religion Project, Columbia Law Professor Comments on Federal Court Conviction of Four Migrants' Rights Activists for Leaving Water and Food in the Arizona Desert, (2019).
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