This article by Denise Holley appeared in our fall newsletter.
Deportation can split a family apart. It can strand a parent south of the border and leave the rest of the family heartbroken and struggling to earn a living. Continue reading Volunteers help stop deportations and “Keep Tucson Together”
This article by volunteer-program coordinators Allison Semmler and Tyler Espinoza appeared in our fall newsletter.
As temperatures in the Sonoran desert rose to over 100 degrees in early June, No More Deaths welcomed the first group of summer volunteers. By the end of the summer program on October 24, over seventy-five volunteers from around the country will have given humanitarian aid at the Arivaca desert camp and the Migrant Resource Center in Agua Prieta, Sonora. Continue reading Wrap-up of 2014 volunteer program
Here is our fall newsletter! (Click to read or download.)
No More Deaths helps immigrants survive treacherous desert journey to US
Deutsche Welle (Germany), November 1, 2014
Somewhere on the border. For just short of an hour Dan Wilson has dragged himself and a rucksack full of supplies through the barren, scorching plain. Continue reading Deutsche Welle (Germany): “No More Deaths helps immigrants survive treacherous desert journey to US”
The Tucson Samaritans and No More Deaths present a screening of Trails of Hope and Terror on Thursday, December 4, at 7:00 p.m. at the Loft Cinema in Tucson. This is a benefit screening for both organizations’ work. Continue reading Film screening: Trails of Hope and Terror
Dear NMD supporters,
In our effort to end deaths and suffering in the US–Mexico borderlands, we are increasingly called to address the factors that force so many people to make the perilous journey through the desert.
In this regard, we call on you to help us stop the deportation of Francisco Perez Cordova. Continue reading Take action: Stop the deportation of Francisco Perez Cordova
No More Deaths is one of eighteen signatories of this statement.
Recently, the US Senate failed to pass a border security appropriations bill, while the House of Representatives adjourned for August without responding in a viable way to the Obama administration’s request for emergency funding to address the issue of child refugees fleeing violence and poverty in Central America.
As border communities in Arizona who’ve witnessed the most damaging effects of twenty years of militarization and security-first approaches to immigration policy, it was both alarming and unconscionable Continue reading Statement of Arizona border communities on the Central America refugee crisis
For deportees, a struggle to get cash from checks
Nogales International, Curt Prendergast, August 19, 2014
Javier Gutierrez wasn’t smiling as he sat down at a table inside the Kino Border Initiative’s dining hall on Wednesday morning. Continue reading Nogales International: “For deportees, a struggle to get cash from checks”
