Aid for migrants

A federal appeals court has rejected attempts to criminalize humanitarian aid to migrants from Mexico and South America crossing the desert into the United States.

Two years ago, a federal magistrate in Tucson, Ariz., convicted Daniel Millis of littering. He had been charged by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service after he refused to remove water jugs left behind along a trail in the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge used by illegal immigrants.

The appeals court found the term "garbage" to be "sufficiently ambiguous" and reversed Mr. Millis's conviction.

He is a member of the faith-based group No More Deaths, which has been providing lifesaving food, water and medical aid to illegal immigrants facing death in the desert.