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To be fair here:

The article xp posted says that this sort of thing has been happening with this organization for a while now, and in "many of the previous cases" the charges were dropped. (Reading between the lines, my guess is that some volunteers have been charged with misdemeanors for things related to their humanitarian work, but attempts at felony charges that come with prison sentences have been unsuccessful)

"Trump amped up a lot of this fear, but 15 years ago I experienced exactly the same thing," said Shanti Sellz, a vegetable farmer in eastern Iowa. Sellz was a college student and visiting summer volunteer at No More Deaths in 2005 when she and another volunteer, Daniel Strauss, were arrested by Border Patrol agents while driving three dangerously ill undocumented immigrants to a hospital in Tucson. They spent three days in federal custody and were charged with conspiracy and transporting illegal aliens, both felonies.

"We argued that humanitarian aid is never a crime," Sellz said by phone.

That case, too, wound up before Judge Collins [the same judge overseeing this case]. In September 2006, he dismissed the charges, noting that No More Deaths had shared its protocols with the Border Patrol to make sure it was following the law, and that "for three years, the conduct of people similar to those now charged in this case had been, at least tacitly, approved by the Border Patrol."

Assuming CNN is accurately reporting the details of the cases it's a problem that this is happening at all, but the I do think the implication that this guy is going to get 20 years in prison or even ANY time in prison is unfounded, for the moment.
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