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In early 2005, Gilchrist and Simcox rallied over 1,200 volunteers to carry out the first border watch. For one month, activists guarded the 23-mile long stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border, kept count of the number of migrants who approached it, reported their presence, and prevented them from crossing it by scaring them away.
A group of migrants from India that crossed the border at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona walk along the border enforcement road next to the breached border fence on Nov. 1, 2023.
Operation Gatekeeper was a 1994 federal government crackdown on unauthorized border crossing by migrants. Morones has said the program, which fortified border fences and established militarized areas along some sections of the U.S.-Mexico border, is responsible for hundreds of deaths of migrants who tried to enter the United States through difficult terrain, often perishing in extreme weather ...
No More Deaths was founded in 2004 by area religious leaders, including Catholic bishop Gerald Kicanas, Presbyterian minister John Fife, and leaders of the local Jewish community. [1] The founders felt that there was a need for a constant presence on the border to aid migrants and end the increasing numbers of immigrant deaths.
More than 35,000 Chinese migrants crossed the southern border in 2023, but crossings have dropped significantly since then due to stricter enforcement on both the U.S. and Mexican sides.
A new, all-encompassing anti-illegal-immigrant law, with several malevolent components, will take effect in Florida on July 1. Its main goal, sadly, is simple: To guarantee no undocumented ...
Global Refuge, formerly known as Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, [2] is a non-profit organization that supports refugees and migrants entering the United States. It is one of nine refugee resettlement agencies working with the Office of Refugee Resettlement [3] and one of two that serves unaccompanied refugee minors. [4]
Smugglers Transporting Vans Packed With 26 Chinese Migrants Detained In Florida: Police Law enforcement officers processed a group of illegal migrants, mainly from China, police said, early ...