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Condena por tirar basura revocade para hombre de Tucson

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  Escrito por Robbie Abbit
Traducido por Amanda Campos Aravena

Un tribunal federal de apelaciones revocó un fallo contra un activista de Tucsón por haber dejado botellas de un galón de agua para migrantes en una reserva federal de animales cerca de la frontera con México.

El dejar botellas de agua potable para ayudar a los migrantes a sobrevivir no se considera como “tirar basura”, según un fallo de 2-1 que se dio el 2 de septiembre por el Tribunal de Apelaciones del noveno circuito.

Agentes del Servicio de Pesca y Vida Silvestre de los Estados Unidos citaron legalmente al Tucsonense Daniel Millis, 31, por haberse “deshecho de residuos” el 22 de febrero de 2008 después de que él dejara botellas de agua selladas en los caminos de la Reserva Nacional de Animales Buenos Aires, al suroeste de Tucsón.

Al revocar la condena en contra de Millis por deshacerse de residuos, el juez Sidney Thomas dijo que la ley no logra definir lo que es “basura”. “El término es lo suficientemente ambiguo al determinar si el agua potable que se dejó para el consumo humano cumple la definición de ‘basura’”, escribió Thomas.

El juez Jay Bybee dijo en desacuerdo que la ley no permite tirar basura bajo cualquier significado común de la palabra en tierras bajo protección  federal. “En el contexto de la reserva de animales, las botellas plásticas de agua…son basura y contradictorio con la conservación en la Reserva Nacional de Animales Buenos Aires”, escribió Bybee.

Millis dijo que la revocación del tribunal podría ser importante en casos futuros relacionados con la frontera. “Siento un gran alivio de que el tribunal haya finalmente aclarado que la ayuda humanitaria nunca es un delito”, dijo Millis.

Millis, un voluntario del grupo religioso de ayuda “No More Deaths” y un organizador de Borderlands del Sierra Club, pretende proveer agua para ayudar a migrantes que entran a los Estados Unidos en una zona con una alta tasa de mortalidad.

Dos días antes de que citaran a Millis en febrero de 2008, él y otros voluntarios afirman que encontraron el cuerpo de una niña salvadoreña de 14 años de edad quien había muerto en un sendero en el desierto de Arizona.

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