LEAKED: A board meeting of Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson was a held day after our “No Mas Muertes” report showing a Mexican man in their camp offering 300 dollars to traffic our undercover journalist to Phoenix.
In this leaked video, the Board of Trustees, and “Fundraising Coordinator” Danielle discuss contacting the FBI about
O’Keefe Media Group and filing a “cease and desist letter” to stop our investigative journalism.
“Anything that we can do can give him fuel for the fire, even just sending him a letter something that he can put on video and be like – look they responded.” But respond they did in leaked video of 501(c)(3) tax exempt Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson’s (UUCT) board meeting which included its Reverend Bethany Russell-Lowe, someone named Beth who goes by “they/them” pronouns, and fundraising coordinator Danielle. Meeting attendees discussed seeking a cease-and-desist letter and contacting the FBI ironically about O’Keefe Media Group footage that exposed possible federal immigration and human trafficking violations by UUCT’s own ministry partner – No Mas Muertes (No More Deaths) to whom UUCT gives $400K a year. Maybe UUCT should show the FBI OMG’s footage of its ministry partner No Mas Muertes enabling Mexican men from Sonora and Tijuana to hold captive and threaten by gunpoint OMG’s undercover illegal immigrant journalist after offering to traffic him to Phoenix for $300.
After UUCT board member Reverend Bethany Russell-Lowe (she/her) asks whether there is anything UUCT can do to provide a “better level of [legal] protection” “to help shield” UUCT, the video suggests UUCT has a volunteer researching legal and law enforcement options available to UUCT, which begs the question: Why is UUCT more concerned with investigating OMG rather than its own ministry partner No Mas Muertes who operates on tax-exempt land owned by UUCT shielding their identities from law enforcement and associating with men who interrogated OMG’s undercover illegal immigrant journalist: “Why don’t you ask for asylum?” “Where did you cross through?” “Who are they? Who brought you here?” Someone should ask Reverend Bethany Russell-Lowe (she/her) – if UUCT is confident No Mas Muertes is conducting legitimate operations, why would someone within UUCT leak their board meeting to OMG?
