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Monthly Border Patrol encounters rise by more than 50% while remaining lower than 2024

David Ulloa Jr. – Arizona Republic – 28 October 2025

The recent CBP data measures “enforcement outcomes, not migration flows,” Mónica Ruiz House, a spokesperson for No More Deaths/No Más Muertes, said in a written statement regarding the recent CBP data.

“Decades of border militarization have shown that intensified enforcement pushes migrants to cross through increasingly remote and dangerous areas to avoid detection,” Ruiz House said. “As a result, official apprehensions may decline even as crossings persist and become less visible in official datasets like this one.”

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We are Hiring! Bookkeeper

Application Deadline: Sunday May 24, 11:59pm AZ time

Location: Tucson, AZ—Remote position requiring local availability for in-person
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Term of Service: July 6, 2026-July 6, 2027
One year contract with ongoing yearly renewal opportunity

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No More Deaths is a volunteer-led, direct-service organization that provides food, water, and other needed services to migrants in the southwest borderlands. We have a rotating staff of around 15 employees and many dozens of regular volunteers. We are looking for a bookkeeper who can track a high volume of financial details across multiple working groups, be available for weekly meetings, interface with staff and a large rotating volunteer base unfamiliar with GAAP standards, and provide guidance to promote organizational financial health and literacy. No More Deaths operates under a fiscal sponsor, Good Works Matters, and the bookkeeper will work closely with them to track and manage billing, payments, and account reconciliations.

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US-Mexico Border Death Map and Database

August 4 2025

No More Deaths releases database of migrant mortalities along US-Mexico Border

Today, No More Deaths released a comprehensive database and map of recovered migrant remains for the entire southern land border. This data will not bring anyone back or undo the decades of suffering and death caused by US border policy and perpetrated by the United States Border Patrol (USBP), and it does not account for the tens of thousands lost or missing in the borderlands—but it does provide the most comprehensive statistical record to date of people who died on their journey into the United States. Through this data we find the following:

  • Depending on the sector, we document anywhere  from 20% to 40% more migrant deaths than CBP’s official count. We also found that USBP makes regular errors when  recording basic information such as name, age, nationality, and date of death.
  • We show that CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has failed to record the vast majority of BP-related deaths (including deaths in custody, by pursuit, falls from the border barrier, use of force, and medical distress). Wall fall deaths are especially underreported and have increased drastically since the first Trump administration.
  • Our database confirms cases of people seeking asylum when they died, and hints towards many more. Since the erosion of asylum protections under the first Trump administration, and increasing under Biden, there has been a massive increase in the deaths of migrants of nationalities more likely to be seeking asylum.
  • Many cases were individuals who resided in the United States. These ranged from people who had travelled to Mexico to visit family and had to make a difficult crossing to return home, to people who were returning after a very recent deportation to a place where they likely had few or no connections. With the new administration’s push for mass deportation, we will likely see more of our neighbors killed by violent US border policy.

Map: https://nomoredeaths.org/migrant-death-mapping/ 

Database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRVeemioXDJKhz6II5RBxPwWwSEr7tWp4gtAO0M7CL2vS45O1LU6sEiE0bEWTdDlFRj-6CHLutuDwkk/pub?output=xlsx
Findings: https://nomoredeaths.org/us-mexico-border-death-map/ 

Methodology: https://nomoredeaths.org/methodology/ 

Recommendations
The death toll from thirty years of Prevention Through Deterrence border policy is staggering. The death of each person listed in the database here, as well as the thousands more who died in Mexico or in a place where data was unavailable or difficult to access, and the likely tens of thousands more whose remains were never found, who disappeared in remote areas of the border, is a tragedy directly caused by increasingly violent US border enforcement and immigration policies, and by the actions of Border Patrol, an agency that has proved time and again that it cannot be reformed. 

  • We call for the end of Prevention Through Deterrence and the abolition of the United States Border Patrol, an agency directly and indirectly responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people.
  • We also call for the abolition of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has been empowered and emboldened to create and invisibilize more and more of the harms described here.
  • To ensure that human rights and international law are respected, we echo our open letter of December 2023 in calling for ports of entry to be reopened to asylum seekers. We must also reopen legal asylum pathways which are our responsibility under international law and decades of precedent.
  • We urge medical examiners, justices of the peace, and coroner’s offices to follow the lead of the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner, the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, and the El Paso Office of the Medical Examiner in recording migrant deaths. This would go a long way towards creating an alternative to the highly flawed CBP database, and toward ensuring accountability and promoting better understanding of individual causes of death, and of the crisis of mass border death more broadly. 

We’ve pointed at just a few preliminary findings from the large amount of data collected in this database. We hope others can use the database as a resource for continued research, advocacy, and direct aid.