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Mexican Immigration Activists Released from Jail Ahead of Trial

HeadlineJun 13, 2019

Elsewhere in Mexico, two immigration activists known for their work assisting Central American migrants who were arrested on June 5 were freed from jail Wednesday ahead of their upcoming trials. The arrests of Irineo Mujica and Cristobal Sánchez earlier this month came as President Trump threatened to impose tariffs on Mexican imports unless the Mexican government agreed to crack down on asylum seekers headed for the U.S.-Mexico border. On Wednesday, a judge ruled the pair should not be held in pretrial custody as they await trial on human trafficking charges. Mujica has worked closely with Scott Warren, a humanitarian aid volunteer with the group No More Deaths in Tucson, Arizona. Later in the broadcast, we’ll go to Arizona, where a federal judge has just declared a mistrial in a criminal case against Scott Warren that could see him sentenced to up to 20 years in prison for providing water, clean clothes and beds to two asylum seekers in the Sonoran Desert.

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