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No More Deaths volunteers staff migrant centers in northern Mexico to provide aid to undocumented immigrants who have recently been deported or repatriated by the Border Patrol. The centers are located in Nogales and Agua Prieta , Sonora , just across the border from Nogales and Douglas, Arizona , respectively.
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 ...
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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.
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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]
Sara Mora never intended to be an immigration activist but realized there was too much grievance and pain in her community to ignore. Meet the 22-year-old fighting for undocumented communities ...