Humanitarian aid considered a crime.

Amy Goodman interviews Dan Millis who was arrested in Arizona for littering when he left water jugs as humanitarian aid to save the lives of people crossing the desert. It is a horrific story about justice in America.

We’re joined right now by Dan Millis. He’s a volunteer with No More Deaths. Last year, in February of 2008, he found the body of a fourteen-year-old girl from El Salvador in the southern Arizona desert. Two days later, as he was leaving gallon-sized sealed jugs of water along the same migrant trails, he was ticketed for littering by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. He refused to pay the $175 fine and fought the littering ticket misdemeanor charge on the grounds that humanitarian aid is not a crime. Well, a district court has just denied his appeal last month, stating, quote, “the Court finds the water jugs, left in the refuge, constitute garbage.”