The Abuse Documentation team is working hard on the third and final installment of the report series Disappeared: How US Border-Enforcement Agencies Are Fueling a Missing-Persons Crisis. Part 3 will deal with emergency nonresponse: the routine failure of the Border Patrol and other law-enforcement agencies to respond adequately to search-and-rescue requests in order to save the lives of people who have gone missing while crossing the US–Mexico border. Continue reading Final “Disappeared” report coming in 2019
Category Archives: Abuse documentation
Volunteers take borderlands perspective to international audience
Kate Morgan of No More Deaths and César Ortigoza of Armadillos Búsqueda y Rescate are traveling to Amsterdam to give the opening remarks at “Border Deaths and Migration Policies: State and Non-state Approaches.” Continue reading Volunteers take borderlands perspective to international audience
US Border Patrol systematically destroyed water supplies left for migrants in desert, report says
US Border Patrol systematically destroyed water supplies left for migrants in desert, report says
Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept, January 17, 2018
A new report says that humanitarian groups working along the U.S. border with Mexico have documented the systematic destruction of thousands of jugs of water left for migrants trekking north through the desert—and that U.S. Border Patrol agents are to blame. Continue reading US Border Patrol systematically destroyed water supplies left for migrants in desert, report says
US border patrol routinely sabotages water left for migrants, report says
US border patrol routinely sabotages water left for migrants, report says
Rory Carroll, The Guardian, January 17, 2018
United States border patrol agents routinely vandalise containers of water and other supplies left in the Arizona desert for migrants, condemning people to die of thirst in baking temperatures, according to two humanitarian groups. Continue reading US border patrol routinely sabotages water left for migrants, report says
“Disappeared,” part 2, “Interference with Humanitarian Aid”
Demand Border Patrol stop destroying humanitarian aid
Yesterday, No More Deaths, in collaboration with La Coalición de Derechos Humanos, released Interference with Humanitarian Aid: Death and Disappearance on the US–Mexico Border. This report is the second installment of a three-part report series entitled Disappeared: How US Border-Enforcement Agencies Are Fueling a Missing-Persons Crisis. In part 2, we detail the intentional destruction of over 3,000 gallons of water left out for border crossers, implicating the US Border Patrol in the majority of this destruction. We document how Border Patrol agents engage in the widespread vandalism of gallons of water left for border crossers and routinely interfere with other humanitarian-aid efforts in rugged and remote areas of the borderlands. Continue reading Demand Border Patrol stop destroying humanitarian aid
Footage of Border Patrol vandalism of humanitarian aid, 2010–2017
Publicizing our findings: Midwest speaking tour
Sophie Smith and Alicia Dinsmore presented the findings of Deadly Apprehension Methods: The Consequences of Chase and Scatter in the Wilderness at five schools in the Midwest in February. Continue reading Publicizing our findings: Midwest speaking tour
End the crisis of death and disappearance at the border!
There is a crisis of death and disappearance happening at the US–Mexico border. Today, Tucson-based groups No More Deaths and La Coalición de Derechos Humanos release part 1 of a three-part report series aimed at bringing this crisis to light. Continue reading End the crisis of death and disappearance at the border!
“Disappeared,” part 1, “Deadly Apprehension Methods”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Ux__uVfNA&showinfo=0