Category Archives: Special projects

A great holiday gift for No More Deaths allies

December 14, 2015 Admin

In September 2014, No More Deaths volunteers said farewell to longtime volunteer and supporter Cyril Barrett. Chances are if you volunteered with No More Deaths in 2006–2008 you met and worked alongside Cyril, who was instrumental in building No More Deaths’s desert work and Agua Prieta work. You may also know his voice from the Border Songs album, which features his heartfelt song “Coyotes of Sasabe.” Continue reading A great holiday gift for No More Deaths allies →

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Helping Immigrants Recover Detained Money and Belongings: Best Practices

February 28, 2015 Admin

Our report Shakedown: How Deportation Robs Immigrants of Their Money and Belongings documents immigration authorities’ failure to return people’s personal property to them in the process of detaining and deporting them. Continue reading Helping Immigrants Recover Detained Money and Belongings: Best Practices →

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How the deportation shakedown works (video)

February 8, 2015 Admin

Would you believe that mass deportation robs migrants and immigrants of millions of dollars a year and puts their lives at risk? We collaborated with the Binational Defense and Advocacy Program (Programa de Defensa e Incidencia Binacional) on this video that shows how.

Please watch, share, and take action!

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Our contribution to this video is based on the work we did to prepare our report Shakedown: How Deportation Robs Immigrants of Their Money and Belongings.

Special projects

Tools for Searching for a Missing Migrant

July 15, 2014 Admin

We present a helpful tool (in Spanish only at this time) for finding a loved one who is a migrant and went missing. Continue reading Tools for Searching for a Missing Migrant →

Special projects

Dignity bags

July 14, 2014 Admin

Every day, migrants are deported from the US to Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, with little more than the clothes on their backs. What belongings they have they must often carry in plastic or paper bags issued by the detention centers in which they have been held.

This project supplies bags at no cost to the Missionary Sisters of the Eucharist, who operate the Kino Border Initiative’s comedor (dining hall) in Nogales, to distribute among the people they serve there. Continue reading Dignity bags →

Special projects

Border Songs

July 14, 2014 Admin

The Border Songs album contains 31 tracks of music and spoken word, in English and Spanish, about the border and immigration. All of the artists—Pete Seeger, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Calexico, Charles Bowden, and many others—donated their work, and the project is donating all of the proceeds to No More Deaths/No Más Muertes. Continue reading Border Songs →

After Trump’s immigration crackdown, a desert clinic tries to save lives without breaking the law

Eric Boodman, Stat, July 6, 2017

When the man walked in with fang marks on his leg, the volunteers knew the protocol: In the case of a rattlesnake bite, you call 911. But like all of the patients who end up here, his very presence in this desert clinic meant he had broken American law. Continue reading →

July 13, 2017 Admin
Arizona aid group questions Border Patrol surveillance following a raid on its camp

Ryan Devereux, The Intercept, June 17, 2017

A three-day showdown in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert between Border Patrol agents and a humanitarian group, which culminated in a raid and the arrests of four undocumented immigrants, has aid workers raising questions about government surveillance and operational practices. The arrests took place Thursday evening at a camp run by the group No More Deaths, also known as No Más Muertes, which is located on private property near the unincorporated community of Arivaca, roughly 11 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The humanitarian group said approximately 30 well-armed Border Patrol agents descended upon the location looking for “bodies” in a coordinated and alarmingly militarized operation, leaving with the four men in tow. Continue reading →

July 13, 2017 Admin

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	September 2017
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					1	2 Mantenga Tucsón Unido/Keep Tucson Together Mantenga Tucsón Unido/Keep Tucson Together 2:00 pm–5:00 pm Google Calendar Southside Presbyterian Church, 317 W 23rd St, Tucson, AZ 85713, United States Google Map La clínica legal Mantenga Tucsón Unido de No Ms Muertes y la abogada Margo Cowan invita a todos quienes estén en proceso de deportación en las cortes de inmigración y que no tengan abogados. The Keep Tucson Together legal clinic of No More Deaths and attorney Margo Cowan invite people in immigration deportation proceedings and who do not have lawyers. Habrá asesoría gratis para preparar su paquete de documentación que se presentará ante los fiscales para que cierren su caso y se pueda permanecer este país al lado de su familia. El Presidente Obama prometió cerrar todos los casos de personas con deportación si tienen los siguientes requisitos: tener amplias raices en este país, no tener antecedentes de cargos criminales serios, y tener familiares con ciudadanía o residencia. There will be free advice to aid you to prepare a documentation package to be presented to prosecutors to have your case closed and remain in this country. President Obama promised to close all deportation cases if they meet the following requirements: have broad roots in this country, have no previous history of serious criminal charges, or have family members with citizenship or residency. •
3	4 CANCELED: NMD Tucson meeting CANCELED: NMD Tucson meeting 7:15 pm–9:00 pm Google Calendar St Mark's Presbyterian Church, 3809 E 3rd St, Tucson, AZ 85716, United States Google Map *We have decided to cancel this meeting due to Labor Day* No More Deaths is a group of people working to end the death and suffering of migrants caused by the militarization of the border between Mexico and the US. Meetings take place every Monday. These meetings are open and public. We encourage everyone in the community to come and contribute time and energy to this movement. We meet at St. Mark's Presbyterian Church. We normally meet in the Knox Room, but through early September we are meeting in the Geneva Room instead. Enter through the north parking lot off 2nd Street. •	5 NMD Phoenix meeting NMD Phoenix meeting 7:30 pm–9:00 pm Google Calendar Central United Methodist Church, 1875 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004, United States Google Map No More Deaths is a group of people working to end the death and suffering of migrants caused by the militarization of the border between Mexico and the US. Meetings in Phoenix take place on the first and third Tuesday of the month. These meetings are open and public. We encourage everyone in the community to come and contribute time and energy to this movement. We meet at Central United Methodist Church, 1875 N. Central Avenue, Room 103 (just north of McDowell on east side of Central). •	6	7	8	9
10	11 NMD Tucson meeting NMD Tucson meeting 7:15 pm–9:00 pm Google Calendar St Mark's Presbyterian Church, 3809 E 3rd St, Tucson, AZ 85716, United States Google Map No More Deaths is a group of people working to end the death and suffering of migrants caused by the militarization of the border between Mexico and the US. Meetings take place every Monday. These meetings are open and public. We encourage everyone in the community to come and contribute time and energy to this movement. We meet at St. Mark's Presbyterian Church, in the Knox Room, which has its own entrance at the southwest corner of the church. •	12	13	14	15	16 Mantenga Tucsón Unido/Keep Tucson Together Mantenga Tucsón Unido/Keep Tucson Together 2:00 pm–5:00 pm Google Calendar Southside Presbyterian Church, 317 W 23rd St, Tucson, AZ 85713, United States Google Map La clínica legal Mantenga Tucsón Unido de No Ms Muertes y la abogada Margo Cowan invita a todos quienes estén en proceso de deportación en las cortes de inmigración y que no tengan abogados. The Keep Tucson Together legal clinic of No More Deaths and attorney Margo Cowan invite people in immigration deportation proceedings and who do not have lawyers. Habrá asesoría gratis para preparar su paquete de documentación que se presentará ante los fiscales para que cierren su caso y se pueda permanecer este país al lado de su familia. El Presidente Obama prometió cerrar todos los casos de personas con deportación si tienen los siguientes requisitos: tener amplias raices en este país, no tener antecedentes de cargos criminales serios, y tener familiares con ciudadanía o residencia. There will be free advice to aid you to prepare a documentation package to be presented to prosecutors to have your case closed and remain in this country. President Obama promised to close all deportation cases if they meet the following requirements: have broad roots in this country, have no previous history of serious criminal charges, or have family members with citizenship or residency. •
17	18 NMD Tucson meeting NMD Tucson meeting 7:15 pm–9:00 pm Google Calendar St Mark's Presbyterian Church, 3809 E 3rd St, Tucson, AZ 85716, United States Google Map No More Deaths is a group of people working to end the death and suffering of migrants caused by the militarization of the border between Mexico and the US. Meetings take place every Monday. These meetings are open and public. We encourage everyone in the community to come and contribute time and energy to this movement. We meet at St. Mark's Presbyterian Church, in the Knox Room, which has its own entrance at the southwest corner of the church. •	19 NMD Phoenix meeting NMD Phoenix meeting 7:30 pm–9:00 pm Google Calendar Central United Methodist Church, 1875 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004, United States Google Map No More Deaths is a group of people working to end the death and suffering of migrants caused by the militarization of the border between Mexico and the US. Meetings in Phoenix take place on the first and third Tuesday of the month. These meetings are open and public. We encourage everyone in the community to come and contribute time and energy to this movement. We meet at Central United Methodist Church, 1875 N. Central Avenue, Room 103 (just north of McDowell on east side of Central). •	20	21	22	23
24	25 NMD Tucson meeting NMD Tucson meeting 7:15 pm–9:00 pm Google Calendar St Mark's Presbyterian Church, 3809 E 3rd St, Tucson, AZ 85716, United States Google Map No More Deaths is a group of people working to end the death and suffering of migrants caused by the militarization of the border between Mexico and the US. Meetings take place every Monday. These meetings are open and public. We encourage everyone in the community to come and contribute time and energy to this movement. We meet at St. Mark's Presbyterian Church, in the Knox Room, which has its own entrance at the southwest corner of the church. •	26	27	28	29	30