Tucson.com | Emily Bregel | December 3, 2025
order agents raided a migrant-aid camp near Arivaca last week, entering private structures without a warrant and arresting three people who were receiving aid there, volunteers with the group No More Deaths said.
Continue readingThe Intercept | Ryan Devereaux | December 2, 2025
The raid on humanitarian aid providers on the U.S.–Mexico divide late last month was the first where Border Patrol entered structures without a warrant.
Continue readingKJZZ | Alisa Reznick | December 2, 2025
The humanitarian group No More Deaths says Border Patrol agents entered their aid camp along the U.S.-Mexico border and made arrests at the end of last month — marking the first time since 2020.
Continue readingArizona Luminaria | Carolina Cuellar and Rafael Carranza | December 1, 2025
No More Deaths group says agents waited outside for an hour before breaking in structures at Byrd Camp in what the group calls a new escalation.
Continue readingTucsonSentinel.com | Paul Ingram | December 1st, 2025
Border Patrol agents raided the No More Deaths camp near Arivaca, Ariz., on Nov. 23 and arrested three people without a warrant to enter the private property, the humanitarian organization said Monday morning
Continue readingOn death and dehumanization at the border, and the long arc of American fascism
by Max Granger, June 25, 2025
“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule.” -Walter Benjamin, 1940
In this moment of spiraling state and stochastic terror, as the imperial boomerang slices through the Middle East like a mad butcher, bending back, blood-stained, to sling its terrible shock homeward, we might be inclined to focus on the unfamiliar—to perceive our apocalyptic present as a rupture from some stable past. This, to say it simply, is the myopia of privilege. It is the liberal analogue, or inversion, of Make America Great Again: a grasping for an era or ethos that never really was, at least not for the people whose graves paved the way for its “progress.”1
“In America, we have due process.” “In America, we don’t have kings.” “In America, we don’t go to war without congressional approval.” “In America, we welcome immigrants.”
But what is due process to the thousands coerced into private prisons by plea deals or churned into detention camps by the bipartisan “consequence delivery system” known, officially, as Operation Streamline.2 What is a country without kings, when it is ruled by capitalists? What does it matter, to the victims, if Congress rubber stamps a war or the president unilaterally makes one? What does it mean to “welcome” some immigrants—displaced, in all likelihood, by U.S. destabilization—at the expense of a million more trapped behind the walls of our militarized borders? What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?
HOMAN AND NOEM WILL DRIVE BORDER AGENDA: TED CRUZ
Billal Rahman, Newsweek, 13 November 2024
Texas Senator Ted Cruz said former ICE Director Tom Homan, recently nominated as President-elect Donald Trump’s “border czar,” will be the key figure in “driving” immigration policy at the southern border, rather than incoming Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. With Stephen Miller, who was appointed Deputy Chief of Policy, Trump has appointed a…
AS US ELECTION NEARS, MIGRANTS CONTEMPLATE A PERILOUS JOURNEY
Brian Osgood, Al Jazeera, 5 November 2024
TUCSON, Arizona – In the Sonoran Desert north of Tucson, Arizona, the telltale signs of migrants heading north are scattered beneath shrubby trees and in dried-out stream beds: empty jugs of water, desiccated backpacks, tattered blankets and faded pieces of clothing.It’s difficult to say how long ago they were left behind. The harsh elements of…
A NEW REPORT SHOWS SKYROCKETING DEATHS IN EL PASO, NEW MEXICO BORDER REGION
Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, 9 April 2024
As safe corridors for migration disappear, more people risk their lives crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. And more people die. A new report by the nonprofit No More Deaths, along with a searchable map and database, documents the increasing number of migrant deaths at the border in New Mexico and far West Texas. Until now, not much research has been done on the deaths of people migrating through this section of the border. The project was led by Bryce, a No More Deaths volunteer (who asked that we not use his last name because the Far Right has recently been targeting the group). He, along with several others, have created the most comprehensive database to date of deaths in the Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector, which includes New Mexico and two counties in Texas, El Paso and Hudspeth.
The report covers 15 years, from 2008 to 2023, and it shows many disturbing trends, including the acceleration of deaths that has accompanied “prevention through deterrence,” the U.S. government’s strategy implemented in the 1990s to push migrants into more remote, dangerous crossings. That strategy is now morphing into something all the more tragic as people, increasingly women and children, are barred from accessing asylum and are dying at the doorstep of American cities and towns. In this Q&A, Bryce talks about documenting these deaths, and the discoveries that both shocked and angered him in creating this new report.
Continue readingGROUPS: CBP UNDERCOUNTING MIGRANT DEATHS ON THE BORDER
Julian Resendiz, Border Report, 8 April 2024
EL PASO, Texas – A regional humanitarian nonprofit says the federal government is undercounting migrant deaths and continues to engage in practices such as chases of suspected smugglers that result in third-party fatalities.
Research published in March by the Arizona-based No More Deaths shows two to four times as many migrants died in West Texas and Southern New Mexico in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020 than reported by the government. The deaths resulted from dehydration or hypothermia (depending on the season), falls from mountains or the border wall, drownings, being struck by motor vehicles and being injured during law-enforcement chases.
The group attributes the undercount – which it documents case-by-case in a public database with more than 400 deaths – to insufficient follow-up with hospitals, local police and medical examiners after border agents or officers come upon injured parties or skeletal remains.
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