Dear Friends of No More Deaths/ No Más Muertes,Returning from Mexico into the USA at the Mariposa port of entry in Nogales, travelers are greeted with a symbol emblematic of our government’s current border policy - View this email in your browser ( [link removed] )    Dear Friends of No More Deaths/ No Más Muertes,Returning from Mexico into the USA at the Mariposa port of entry in Nogales, travelers are greeted with a symbol emblematic of our government’s current border policy - razor wire wrapped around the statement, “Welcome to the United States.” Volunteers from No More Deaths and others who cross the border daily to help at the Kino Border Initiative “Comedor” (kitchen)  in Nogales, Mexico, where migrants and asylum seekers show up for two meals a day, medical aid, check cashing and phone services, are confronted with the contradiction of such a “welcome.” That same “razor wire” attitude toward refugees and immigrants is being felt across the country as well. Since the federal government decided to re-try No More Deaths volunteer Dr. Scott Warren for felony harboring charges after a mistrial was declared in June, more human remains have been found in the Sonoran Arizona desert, where Scott was arrested. We are still puzzled about why the government is re-trying Scott for providing humanitarian aid to migrants. The conspiracy charge has been dropped, but on November 12, 2019, they will re-try Dr. Warren on the same charges of harboring. Scott Warren is a Samaritan and No More Deaths volunteer with a long history of providing aid in the desert and who has all too often discovered the bodies of children, mothers, fathers and people desperate to escape poverty and violence in their home countries. Since Dr. Warren’s arrest in January 2018, nearly one hundred more people have been found dead in the Arizona desert alone. Longtime observers of this crisis of death and disappearance believe that for every one body found, five to ten times that number are not. In light of this continuing crisis, it’s unthinkable that Scott Warren is going to be tried a second time, and it’s even more incomprehensible that our own government is the prosecutor. Why isn’t our government more concerned about the deaths of so many migrants/ refugees in our border region? What we see is razor wire, more troops on the border, more border wall construction, the gutting of asylum laws, increased militarization, and hyper enforcement that results in even more deaths. Humanitarian efforts are stymied instead of supported. Re-trying Scott Warren only highlights how intent our government is to criminalize people of conscience compelled to provide humanitarian aid to those in need. With Scott’s re-trial less than three months away, we need your support more than ever. We invite you to speak out in your circles of family, friends, and neighbors so that with ONE VOICE we continue to proclaim: " HUMANITARIAN AID IS NEVER A CRIME. DROP THE CHARGES!"We are grateful for your past support of our work on the US-Mexico border.  You've made it possible for us to enlarge our reach by providing increased lifesaving humanitarian aid in the west Arizona desert, expanding our search and rescue capabilities, and also offering aid in four northern Mexico towns.  Please help us continue to do this work by donating here ( [link removed](?x-mi:(?%3C=href=)[%5Cs]*[ ).Thank you so much for your continued generosity and support.In solidarity and gratitude,​The No More Deaths/ No Más Muertes Community       ( [link removed] ) ( [link removed] ) ( [link removed] )  Click to edit Email Preferences ( [link removed] ) or Unsubscribe ( [link removed] ) from this list. No More Deaths/No Más Muertes P.O. Box 40782 Tucson, AZ 85717 - USA