No More Deaths: Humanitarian Aid is Never a Crime, Saving Lives of Migrants

Roots of the current border crisis began almost 25 years ago with the passage of NAFTA. No More Deaths and other humanitarian groups responded to the resulting surge of migrants into Arizona beginning in 2000. "No More Deaths" chronicles this response through desert and border work, conflicts with Border Patrol and Fish and Wildlife, federal trials of humanitarians for assisting migrants, energetic support from volunteers, substantial financial response from supporters throughout the country and collaboration with other humanitarian groups. After ten years of restraint by government agencies, at this printing, a No More Deaths volunteer, Dr. Scott Warren, faces federal trial for feeding, clothing, and providing a resting spot for two migrants in Ajo, Arizona. In FY 2000, Border Patrol processed more than 1,600,000 migrants, yet 390,000 asylum seekers during 9 months of FY 2019 constitutes a crisis. This doesn't make sense. Read real stories of volunteers assisting migrants so they can join their families, feed their children, and work in jobs "we" don't want to do. This book provides a strong case for comprehensive immigration reform NOW. The current crisis on the border began with the passage of NAFTA in 1994. This book chronicles the response of humanitarians in Southern Arizona to the massive influx of Mexicans and others into Arizona following that event. Since 2004, No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes has integrated volunteers from around the world to take life-saving water, food, and first aid to migrants traversing the desert. In addition, the group has provided money exchange, haircuts, phone calls to family, and other important services to deportees at ports of entry as well as support to migrant centers within Mexico. It has faced down government agencies, survived several federal trials, doggedly asserted the rights of migrants, and pressed for comprehensive immigration reform. Through narrative stories, emails, meeting notes, and other means, many volunteers have helped Sue Lefebvre tell the story