A judge overturned the convictions of four volunteers who left food and water for migrants in the de
Source: CNN
(CNN)After four aid volunteers entered an Arizona wildlife refuge in 2017 and left jugs of water and cans of beans for undocumented migrants to find, the volunteers were found guilty of breaking federal law.
Now, a federal judge has overturned their convictions.
On Monday, US District Judge Rosemary Márquez ruled that the volunteers, who were part of the No More Deaths ministry of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson, were acting on their sincere religious beliefs when they left food and water for migrants in the desert of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge.
"Defendants met their burden of establishing that their activities were exercises of their sincere religious beliefs, and the Government failed to demonstrate that application of the regulations against Defendants is the least restrictive means of accomplishing a compelling interest," the ruling reads.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/06/us/arizona-aid-volunteers-reverse-convictions-trnd/index.html
About damn time something goes right.
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Thanks for posting this story, William! 
other people suffer.........
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