The law out here . Three months after the government put scott warren on trial for providing aid to migrants in need, we follow him and other volunteers on a water drop in the desert where they regularly leave food and water for the people making the perilous journey north. His trial ended witith a hung jy bubut thgovevernnt will retry him i in nomberer. Ananwhil people e continng toieie here in the borderlands. Fm 1990 to 1999, there were an average 12 remns of border crossersrorought to this office eaeach yr. The prese, that averages64. What changed is u. S. Border policing strategy. We e will speak with robin , a nonprofit that identifies the remains of thousands of migrants identified here in the desert. To democracynow. Fn afghanistan, a series o inbings rocked afghanistan an eastern city. Afghanistan is marking the 100th anniversary of its independence today. The attacks followed the bloody suicide bombing at a wedding in kabul. The attack was the d deadliest this year. 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The government charge scott volunteerlongtime with no more deaths, with conspiracy, for providing food immigrants. Two two re arrested january 17, 2018. If convicted, lauren faced 20 years in prison. Other same time, he and volunteers faced separate charges for leaving water jugs and food for migrants on a National Wildlife refuge in a remote desert. Tucson took eight days. Volteersd other pridided testimony on t conditions that send migrant deeper into thdesert eh year after hos,s, the jy cocoulnot turn a aerdict. Thgovernme has s sd they will still charge h on two felony migrantnt hboringng ararges. If cvicted, faces uto 10 years in prison. He meai his tri, usn the dert to show firsthanthe work he does with no more deaths in the treacherous desert just norththf the mexican border. Over 3000 migrants who have died in Southern Arizona have been found. That is an average of 150 dead per year. Immigrant rights activists say the number may be closer to 10,000. Warren and other no more deaths volunteers for his first trip in a year as they made a water drop in the desert. We are in the c center of ton at our newly opened humanitarian aid office. The office is here to support in the borderlands providing humanitarian aid, water and food, to people coming to our communities. Amy today we will go to the desert with you. This is the fifirst time you are doing this since the trial . Scott we will go to the desert today and see some of the areas people are walking through and fighting through and some of the areas that no more deaths and other humanitarian aid groups do their work in. Amy lets go into the office. My name is paige and i am a Media Coordinator and i have been volunteering since 2013. Amy can you tell us where we will go today . Right now we are in the ajo aid office. Well drive south out of town and take a right on a road that starts as darby well road but turns into the devils highway. It continues to yuma. There is a book written about it, about some migrants who died in that area. South. Follow the road luisevils highway by alberto reya. It is about a group of migrants who died. We will be south of where that book took place. Amy tell us where we are going. Scott we are headed to organ pipe, cactus National Monument. We will check on some water drop locations. Amy water drops are . Scott water drops are places where we leave food and water and other humanitarian supplies for people walking through the desert who would be without those things. Amy can you describe whats happening . A border we see patrol van up ahead. Scott thehere is Border Patrol activity in this area which is not unusual. Its definitely one of the areas of a lot of enforcement. Its where wewe do humanitarian aid work in. We are entering into the Growler Valley. Area. Lso a very active paige, can you tell us what you are doing . Are going to leave a couple of gallons here. If anybody sees the beacon and walks toward it they will find water. . My what is the rescue beacon beacons areescue made by Border Patrol and they have a button on them. If they push it, they will come into what they call a rescue but what is actually detaining them. The beacons dont have water so when we driveby we leave it. If people see them, they will have water. Amy you are leaving water and paige and a couple cans of beans. Rescue beacons are something that all of people in the trials have talked about as their efforts to save lives. They dont have any data to show how effective they are. The one time they release data it showed how many times the buttons were pushed and how many rescues they resesulted in. In the yuma sector they were pressed a couple thousand times and resulted in four rescues. There useded to be a red cross. Told b Border Patrol they had to remove that because they are not a humanitarian aid group here. It used to have that International Symbol of help and it was removed. In Organ Pipe Cactus National monument. We are right on the Boundary Line between that park and the refuge. Its what they call a boundary Forward Operating space. It is attached to the ajo station. They use it as a base in the wilderness here to conduct patrols in this Growler Valley area. Amy we have stopped here, why . Scott i cant set foot into the refuge right now. As you mentioned, thats because of the misdemeanor charges that related to the provision of humanitarian aid on the refuge. I also face felony charges for w hat the government calls the harboring of migrants. Were here on the boundary. Throughntinue south organ pipe and check on water drop locations but we will not go on to the National Wildlife refuge. Amy the government was forced to drop conspiracy charges against you for helping migrants, but the felony charges for helping them remain. It shocked many because it was a hung jury. Eight of the jurors said they would have acquitted you. The government decided to move forward. Why do you persist . This is the first time you have come out on the range since your trial and yet youre here delivering water. It is part of the regular work we do out here to check on these water drops. To be a presence and to witness what is happening in the desert. It is very remote out here. The things that we do is just being a presence already. , and to be a witnessing presence is very important. Being out here is a gogood thin. Usis something that those of who live in ajo and do this work really feel compelled to be out here this time of year. The as we drove next to border patatrol forward operatig base it sounds like a war. So do the casualties. No more deaths having disintegrating bodies of migrants, the bones of migrants who had died much earlier not far from where we are standing right now. Scott that is right. You mentioned the casualties here. Both the people who hahave died, the migrants being forced into these remote and rugged areas of decades now as a result the way that the border is enforced. Impact onhe direct people who have died, peopople o have suffered or disappeared, and the Ripple Effect on their families. Is trauma that that creates, another way that it can feel like a war zone. I dont like the war zone rhetoric that you typically hear politicians use because it is used to do to increase militarization and building walls but it is appropriate to the trauma that people have faced. Forwardk about this operating base of the Border Patrol who come out here and stay for days and rotation. This wasnt built during the trump years but under president obama. Scott there have been different versions of a Forward OperatingOrgan Pipe Cactus National monument for d decades, but this one here is very established. It is fairly recent in the last five to seven years. Organ pipe cactus National Monument. Is a military base builds and a National Park. A military base built in National Park on native american territory. Arelevels of disposition many here of the Indigenous People that have always lived here and this has always been there territory. It is layers upon layers of disposition. Amy just as we got out of our car here we are at organ pipe but we are not going into the is not safecause it for you, a helicopter flew overhead. Talk about the significance of these helicopters. Those are u. S. Customs and Border Patrol helicopters. They are o out here looking for people. They fly up and down this valley through these mountains and in different areas. On the one hand they can come across people who want to get rescued. People might send a signal fire or something. People might be trying to signal because they have run out of want to be theyve come to the end and they are doing everything they can to get themselves rescued. Helicopters are also part of prevention and deterrence. They will scatter groups of people. They can chase groups of people and further disorient folks, brutality ofy the it. , theexplain that scattering. There is the famous book called the devils highway. If you can talk about what happened a and how it continues today. It is part of a larger enforcement strategy of the border which is prevention through deterrence. It is about increasing hardships on people with the hope that they will give themselves up. On the biggest scale of the border that was like building walls and fences in urban areas and pushing it to remote places like this where it is difficult to cross. Levels, it can be the helicopter that can cause a group to scatter. Amy what does that mean . Scott seeing a group of people and flying close to them were low to them. Amy they scatter but what does it mean for them . Scott for people scattered by that it can mean death. If you could summarize you are involved in two separate trials right now. Scott thats right. Im facing misdemeanor charges resulting from humanitarian aid work that we did particularly in the summer of two honeys of 2017, providing water and food cabeza prieta. It includes operating a Motor Vehicle in the wilderness area and abandonment of property. The other charges are from a separate incident which are the felony charges of harboring which resulted from an incident in january 2018. I was arrested with two men from Central America at a property in ajo called the barn. They charged them with illegal entry and they charged me with so the jury was a