Second Trial for Arizona Activist Accused of Harboring Migrants
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) β Jury selection started Tuesday in the second trial against an Arizona border activist accused of harboring migrants who sneaked across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Scott Warren, 37, contends he was fulfilling his mission as a humanitarian when he helped two Central American men at a camp run by the border group No More Deaths, which also drops off water jugs in the desert. But prosecutors have said the men were not injured and that Warren conspired to help them evade authorities.
The first trial ended in a mistrial last June when the jury deadlocked. Following jury selection, prosecutors were expected to make their opening statements Tuesday afternoon.
Warren and his supporters have said the government under President Donald Trump has increasingly scrutinized humanitarian groups at the borderβand prosecutors have asked the judge to prohibit Warren from mentioning Trump during the trial, according to court documents.
They have argued that any mention of the president or his administration would be irrelevant and that doing so would pose the danger of unfair prejudice.