In Arizona, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday they will retry humanitarian activist and No More Deaths volunteer Scott Warren, after a jury refused to convict him last month for providing water, food, clean clothes and beds to two undocumented migrants crossing the Sonoran Desert. Prosecutors have, however, dropped the conspiracy charge against Warren. Prosecutors will repeat their case against Warren in front of a jury in November. If convicted, Warren could face up to 10 years behind bars. This is Warren responding to the news Tuesday in front of the federal courthouse in Tucson.

Scott Warren: “While I do not know what the government has hoped to accomplish here, I do know what the effect of all this has been and will continue to be: a raising of public consciousness, a greater awareness of the humanitarian crisis in the borderland, more volunteers who want to stand in solidarity with migrants, local residents stiffened in their resistance to border walls and the militarization of our communities, and a flood of water into the desert at a time when it is most needed.”

We’ll have more on this later in the broadcast with Catherine Gaffney of No More Deaths.