On Friday, December 4, the United States Government faces a choice—to penalize humanitarian aid or to uphold human rights.

Humanitarians in Italy were acquitted Wednesday, October 7 on charges of aiding unauthorized immigrants after picking up African migrants stranded in the Mediterranean Sea.

1. Program Coordination—40 hours/week
2. Border Patrol Custody Standards Project Coordination—10–20 hours/week

The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights produced Guilty by Immigration Status, "a piercing wake-up call to community organizations and immigrant rights advocates to understand the systemic nature of the challenges and obstacles facing the immigrant rights movement’s call for socially just immigration reforms that must include a sustained struggle for justice and human rights." No More Deaths is listed as a contributor!

The Department of Homeland Security's recently resigned Dora Schriro authored a review of detention conditions, which is now public. Hopefully, the suggested reforms will be seriously considered by CBP as well as ICE. If you want to make that hope a reality, consider joining the custody standards campaign! We've made some serious headway since we released our report last September, but there is no shortage of work to do.

No More Deaths has recently entered into a very exciting collaborative project with avant-garde musician Glenn Weyant.  Weyant plays border security infrastructure as string and percussion instruments in an effort to transform this divisive symbol.