This week is immigration week at MCW! Here are steps you can take to understand and advocate for progressive immigration reform measures and to fight against the Trump administration’s hateful anti-immigrant stance.
When Compassion is a Crime
Last week, a federal trial opened in Phoenix against activist Scott Warren, who faces up to twenty years in prison for felony counts of “harboring” undocumented immigrants by providing humanitarian aid to migrants crossing the Arizona desert. Warren is one of several volunteers affiliated with the group No More Deaths/No Más Muertes (English/Español) to have been targeted for prosecution in recent years. Warren was arrested in early 2018, shortly after helping to publicize a video of Border Patrol agents sabotaging water left for migrants in the desert. Many observers consider the arrest to be politically motivated.
He Fought The Law....
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The Mueller Report already seems like old news, and indeed, the president has come in for further troubles with Congress and the law. This week, federal courts rejected the president’s attempt to block Deutsche Bank from complying with congressional subpoenas for Trump’s financial records and rejected another presidential bid to stop his tax returns from being released to Congress. In addition, the New York legislature has voted to authorize the release of the president’s state tax returns.