Border Patrol Agents Bust Migrants Seeking Medical Aid at No More Deaths Desert Camp
The Border Patrol arrested four undocumented border-crossers
receiving medical attention at a humanitarian-aid station on
Thursday evening, breaking with years of precedent.
A helicopter, 15 trucks, two quadrant vehicles and 30 armed
agents descended on the medical-aid station, search warrants
in hand, after tracking a group of migrants for 18 miles, according
to the humanitarian-aid group, No More Deaths, which runs the
humanitarian-aid station in Arivaca, Arizona, less than 15 miles
from the Arizona-Mexico border.
“Right now, the No More Deaths humanitarian-aid station is not a
place that is safe to provide humanitarian aid,” said Eva Lewis,
volunteer with NMD. “There’s a lot of people in dire medical need
who are coming through the desert, and it’s really important that
those people have a place to seek medical aid without fear of
incarceration and/or fear of deportation.”
The Pima County Medical Examiner has received 2,615 sets of
human remains from 2001 through 2016 recovered in the
Tucson Sector border region. Historically, the number of deaths
peak during June and July due to extreme heat. In 2016, 31 percent
of human remains were recovered during these hotter months.
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