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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.
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.
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]
A group of men detained by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol after crossing the border wall in the Tucson Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border are processed at a makeshift intake center on Aug. 29, 2023.
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Researchers have attributed the preponderance of migrant deaths in Arizona to a so-called "funnel effect"; they argue that the militarization of the border has caused illegal immigrants to risk crossing through more remote sections of the Arizona desert, leading to a spike in Arizona's migrant deaths, which rose from 9 in 1990 to 201 in 2005. [4]
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.
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