NO MORE DEATHS REPORT ALLERGES PIMA COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT FAILS TO SEARCH FOR MISSING MIGRANTS
Alisa Reznick, KJZZ Fronteras Desk, 15 November 2023
A new report from the border advocacy group No More Deaths alleges 911 dispatchers in Pima County are failing to help lost migrants in Arizona’s vast desert borderland.
Continue readingREPORT FINDS ARIZONA 911 DISPATCHERS FAIL TO HELP LOST MIGRANTS
Tanvi Misra, High Country News, 14 November 2023
On June 27, 2022, around 1:44 a.m., a man lost in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona called 911. An emergency services dispatcher for Pima County answered. The man, clearly distressed, tried to describe his surroundings and explain that he was lost, wet and freezing. But before he could finish, the dispatcher interrupted him, saying, “I don’t understand, un momento,” and abruptly transferred the call to the U.S. Border Patrol. The agent who picked up shushed the caller as he started to speak —“Cállate!” (“Be quiet!”) — and spoke to the dispatcher instead, in English. Then they hung up, leaving the man to the agent. An incident report suggests that no actions were taken to follow up or locate the lost caller: “No additional calls have come from the subject. … At this time the caller has not been identified and not located.”
