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Los Desconocidos is creating a quilt, made of recycled migrant clothing found at lay-up sites along the US/Mexico border, with approximately 5,000 names of those who have perished in the borderlands. Our mission is to raise awareness about the causes of migration, and the deleterious U.S. foreign and domestic policies that have created the immigration crisis.

Land managers and humanitarian organizations caught in the crosshairs: littering or lives?

On Thursday, July 9th, as temperatures soared above 95 degrees, 13 humanitarians were cited for littering on the Buenas Aires National Wildlife Refuge, 118,000 acre grassland that borders US/Mexico, and approximately 45 miles southwest of Tucson. The dying season, which steals the lives of approximately 250 migrants in the Tucson Sector every year, weighed [...]

July 16th, 2009 | Category: News | Comments are closed