Category Archives: Updates
New book by NMD volunteer on the fight for immigration justice
No More Deaths volunteer Denise Holley has published her first book, Why the Undocumented Belong to America. A longtime journalist, Holley began editing the NMD newsletter in the spring of 2012. Here is the first chapter of the book. Continue reading New book by NMD volunteer on the fight for immigration justice
Enhancing safety for migrants in Nogales
We do everything we possibly can to make the border a safer place for migrants. That’s what our work in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico is about. Continue reading Enhancing safety for migrants in Nogales
Preventing deaths, and helping recover remains, in the Ajo migration corridor
The desert around Ajo, in the western reaches of southern Arizona near the border, is a vast wilderness. Much of it is without public-access roads, making humanitarian aid incredibly difficult. Continue reading Preventing deaths, and helping recover remains, in the Ajo migration corridor
Keep Tucson Together’s campaign to resist deportations
In early February, Keep Tucson Together (KTT) launched the “People’s Power Campaign,” which aims to protect families from raids, detention, and deportation by providing legal counsel, materials, and “know your rights” information. KTT provides community members with updates on changing immigration policies every Thursday during its forum and legal clinic at Tucson’s Pueblo High School. Continue reading Keep Tucson Together’s campaign to resist deportations
“People’s Power Campaign” to resist Trump’s deportation schemes
In early February, Keep Tucson Together (KTT) launched the “People’s Power Campaign,” which aims to protect families from raids, detention, and deportation by providing legal counsel, materials, “know your rights” information, and updates on changing immigration policies to local community members. The first three initiatives of the campaign are in action, and additional protection strategies are announced every Thursday at 5:30 at Tucson’s Pueblo High School, during KTT’s established forum and clinic for members of the local community. Continue reading “People’s Power Campaign” to resist Trump’s deportation schemes
Our work this year—by the numbers
As we close out the year, we honor and celebrate the incredible work done by hundreds of volunteers. Their efforts reach many thousands of migrants, refugees, and undocumented community members. Continue reading Our work this year—by the numbers
A letter to our community and a call to action
Last Monday night, more than 50 members of the No More Deaths community gathered in a church in Tucson. We came together to strategize on the impacts of the Trump administration’s plans to target the US undocumented community with mass deportations, to revoke DACA, and to increase border militarization. As always, we closed our meeting with a moment of silence, thinking of those who have lost their lives crossing the border. Continue reading A letter to our community and a call to action
Sewn together: Women’s cooperative in Mexico fills a niche in US market
The women’s sewing cooperative of DouglaPrieta Works (DPW) is the longest running and closest fair-trade sewing project in our region. The women of DPW make quality hand-sewn products and support a community center that teaches self-sufficiency and promotes food security in the community of Agua Prieta, Sonora. The women are agents for change in this post-colonized town, and the project demonstrates how our consumer choices can make radical differences in people’s lives, while countering the global capitalist paradigm that takes the means of production away from individuals—for everything from the clothes we wear to the food we eat. Continue reading Sewn together: Women’s cooperative in Mexico fills a niche in US market
The work of ending Operation Streamline
It goes on. Operation Streamline is criminalization of migrants as a means to deter re-entry to the United States. Shackled migrants, as many as 75 a day, are rushed through federal court in Tucson, Arizona. The process sometimes happens in less than 30 minutes. After meeting with a government-contracted attorney, they are called to the bench seven to nine at a time. Migrants leave as criminals and are sent to a government-contracted private prison run with billions of taxpayer dollars. Continue reading The work of ending Operation Streamline