Analysis: Cartel scout cases show potential future of border-aid prosecutions

[TomSea]

Analysis
Analysis: Cartel scout cases show potential future of border-aid prosecutions

    By Curt Prendergast Arizona Daily Star Aug 3, 2019


An aid station in Ajo known as The Barn is a base for the border aid group No More Deaths. Prosecutors say the group is trying to interfere with the work of the Border Patrol.
Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star 2019

The last two years saw a rash of criminal charges against border aid workers in Southern Arizona, raising questions about the future of humanitarian aid in a deadly border-crossing area.

A road map to that future may be found by looking back on how the U.S. Attorney’s Office went after cartel scouts and then expanded their pursuit to the variety of roles needed to support the scouts, according to an analysis of cases and trends in U.S. District Court in Tucson by the Arizona Daily Star.

As the U.S. Attorney’s Office pursued charges against nine volunteers with Tucson-based humanitarian aid group No More Deaths, prosecutors in Tucson also expanded the scope of cases involving cartel scouts.

Read more at: https://tucson.com/news/local/analysis-cartel-scout-cases-show-potential-future-of-border-aid/article_44e24f85-f731-5e14-8b2a-921258a54857.html

Posting, I know this case a bit.

[bilo]

It would be great to see these enablers and profiteers locked up.

[Fishrrman]

The best way to put places like this out of business is to get some wall built in the general area.

And if they move somewhere else, concentrate the wall building there.