Inches of snow fell along the border wall near Sasabe, Arizona this weekend Approximately 400 asylum seekers waited along the border wall near Sasabe, Arizona yesterday, in hopes of being picked up by Border Patrol. Border Patrol never came. During the night, snow and freezing temperatures set in. By this morning, a few inches of snow had accumulated and humanitarian aid volunteers found hundreds of people still stranded along the wall with no sign of a Border Patrol response. Volunteers with No More Deaths, Tucson Samaritans, and Green Valley Samaritans began evacuating people to the Border Patrol Station in Sasabe. Many volunteers were detained and threatened with arrest by Border Patrol agents who said that they were informed of the situation but did not plan to drive out to address it. As the snow melted and road conditions turned muddy, volunteer vehicles continued to evacuate people despite threats of arrest in anticipation of more dangerously cold conditions tonight. Now, Border Patrol is refusing to allow more people into the station to be processed. At the time of writing, there are over 250 adults and children left exposed to the elements outside of the Sasabe station. Despite persisting for over three months, Border Patrol has failed to adequately allocate resources to address this ongoing crisis.People cannot be left out in such life-threatening conditions. A response must be enacted now to establish adequate shelters, warming centers, and other basic necessities for those who seek safety and asylum in Sasabe. Photo by Leslie Ann Epperson Donate today to help sustain our humanitarian aid efforts at the border There is a humanitarian crisis ongoing at the border as we are seeing drastically increased numbers of asylum seekers crossing in remote mountain areas. Customs and Border Protection has not been adequately responding, at times even threatening humanitarian aid volunteers with arrest while leaving hundreds stranded in deadly, hypothermic conditions. No More Deaths / No Más Muertes, fellow humanitarian aid groups, community groups, and individuals have stepped up to help care for them, but the situation is continuing to escalate. The Tucson Sentinel wrote an article that illuminates the suffering and dire need, please check it out here. Thus far we have re-allocated funds to manage this support, but those funds are running low and our work is far from over. We are asking our community to help us by making a donation today so we can continue to provide blankets, clothing, food, shoes, and other humanitarian aid. Our volunteers are working tirelessly to get these supplies directly to the people in danger of hypothermia and exposure due to the winter weather. We appreciate our community for continuing to support our humanitarian aid efforts. Without you, it would not be possible to make a significant impact on the crisis. Please email us at fundraising@nomoredeaths.org with any questions. Want to receive email updates? Join our mailing list here The road along the border wall near Sasabe SASABE, Arizona – Last night, humanitarian aid workers scrambled to triage and support 300 asylum seekers stranded along the border wall east of Sasabe, Arizona. A winter storm blew in, dumping rain upon the hundreds of men, women, children, and babies left without adequate shelter in the remote location. Recognizing the urgency of the situation, volunteers notified Border Patrol that they would be driving asylum seekers to the Sasabe substation to be processed, to get them out of the life-threatening cold.Volunteers were told that this was illegal. Meanwhile, Border Patrol agents refused to send personnel to the area, citing road conditions and limited space in vehicles as the reason for their lack of response. They advised volunteers to call 911 if there was a medical emergency. The message from Border Patrol was loud and clear: you’re on your own.Despite the constraints of providing humanitarian aid in a place where cell phone service is limited and the nearest ambulance is two hours away, humanitarian aid volunteers did place multiple calls to 911. Through the rainy day and the frigid night, no emergency services arrived. “Without us volunteers everybody would have died. Everybody would have died,” one volunteer responding to the situation said. “With no tarps, no rain gear, no food, and no water, 300 adults, elders, and children could have died from exposure. We were a group of 8-15 volunteers triaging 300 people, trying to prevent hundreds of deaths. We cannot keep this up. We are not meant for this. We need bigger resources and responses.” There are still hundreds of people stranded along the wall, waiting to be picked up by Border Patrol. TUCSON, Arizona – On November 14th, No More Deaths released Separate and Deadly: Segregation of 911 Emergency Services in the Arizona Borderlands. The report is the latest installment of Disappeared, a four-part series that examines Border Patrol’s role in the crisis of mass death and disappearance in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Separate and Deadly analyzes the Pima County Sheriff’s Department’s emergency response system and the segregation of 911 calls in the border region. The findings of the report shed light on a discriminatory system in which vastly different responses are allocated to callers based on their perceived citizenship status. For people migrating through the region, their distress calls to 911 are customarily transferred to Border Patrol – an agency that has already demonstrated a deadly negligence when it comes to emergency response and rescue. From the report: “In March 2018, a man contacted 911 eleven times over the course of ten hours. He was lost and alone. As the hours passed, his condition clearly deteriorated, and his voice began to fade. It appeared that Border Patrol was not actively searching for him… Pima County dispatchers continued to transfer his call to Border Patrol every time he called… The county’s own Search and Rescue team was never notified, and the county never activated a search for him. Eventually the man stopped calling. The outcome of his case is unknown.” The No More Deaths team reviewed thousands of 911 calls and took testimony from humanitarian aid volunteers, in addition to other relevant data sources. In 99% of the calls where the caller was presumed to be undocumented, no intake or assessment was conducted, in 68% of the calls the dispatcher lacked fluency in Spanish to be able to communicate effectively and 50% of the callers were given no notice before being transferred to Border Patrol. “Not only is call segregation based on presumed immigration status unlawful, the consequences of such practices are deadly,” says Parker Deighan, one of the report’s contributors. “The findings of this report raise serious questions about the county’s complicity in the ongoing crisis of death and disappearance.” In 2023 alone, the remains of 175 people have been found in Arizona. Countless more remain disappeared. Border Patrol agents arrest 3 in Arizona migrant-aid camp raid Tucson.com | Emily Bregel | December 3, 2025 order agents raided a migrant-aid camp near Arivaca last week, entering private structures without a warrant and arresting three people who were receiving aid there, volunteers with the group No More Deaths said. Continue reading → Border Patrol Raided Arizona Medical Aid Site With No Warrant, Showing Growing “Impunity” The Intercept | Ryan Devereaux | December 2, 2025 The raid on humanitarian aid providers on the U.S.–Mexico divide late last month was the first where Border Patrol entered structures without a warrant. Continue reading → No More Deaths says its desert aid camp was raided by Border Patrol — 1st since 2020 KJZZ | Alisa Reznick | December 2, 2025 The humanitarian group No More Deaths says Border Patrol agents entered their aid camp along the U.S.-Mexico border and made arrests at the end of last month — marking the first time since 2020. Continue reading → Aid group says Border Patrol entered Southern Arizona camp without warrant, arresting three Arizona Luminaria | Carolina Cuellar and Rafael Carranza | December 1, 2025 No More Deaths group says agents waited outside for an hour before breaking in structures at Byrd Camp in what the group calls a new escalation. Continue reading → 3 people arrested after Border Patrol raids No More Deaths camp in Az TucsonSentinel.com | Paul Ingram | December 1st, 2025 Border Patrol agents raided the No More Deaths camp near Arivaca, Ariz., on Nov. 23 and arrested three people without a warrant to enter the private property, the humanitarian organization said Monday morning Continue reading → Monthly Border Patrol encounters rise by more than 50% while remaining lower than 2024 David Ulloa Jr. – Arizona Republic – 28 October 2025 The recent CBP data measures “enforcement outcomes, not migration flows,” Mónica Ruiz House, a spokesperson for No More Deaths/No Más Muertes, said in a written statement regarding the recent CBP data. “Decades of border militarization have shown that intensified enforcement pushes migrants to cross through increasingly remote and dangerous areas to avoid detection,” Ruiz House said. “As a result, official apprehensions may decline even as crossings persist and become less visible in official datasets like this one.” Continue reading → “I DON’T KNOW WHERE THE BONES COME FROM” On death and dehumanization at the border, and the long arc of American fascism by Max Granger, June 25, 2025 “The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule.” -Walter Benjamin, 1940 In this moment of spiraling state and stochastic terror, as the imperial boomerang slices through the Middle East like a mad butcher, bending back, blood-stained, to sling its terrible shock homeward, we might be inclined to focus on the unfamiliar—to perceive our apocalyptic present as a rupture from some stable past. This, to say it simply, is the myopia of privilege. It is the liberal analogue, or inversion, of Make America Great Again: a grasping for an era or ethos that never really was, at least not for the people whose graves paved the way for its “progress.”1 “In America, we have due process.” “In America, we don’t have kings.” “In America, we don’t go to war without congressional approval.” “In America, we welcome immigrants.” But what is due process to the thousands coerced into private prisons by plea deals or churned into detention camps by the bipartisan “consequence delivery system” known, officially, as Operation Streamline.2 What is a country without kings, when it is ruled by capitalists? What does it matter, to the victims, if Congress rubber stamps a war or the president unilaterally makes one? What does it mean to “welcome” some immigrants—displaced, in all likelihood, by U.S. destabilization—at the expense of a million more trapped behind the walls of our militarized borders? What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July? Continue reading → HOMAN AND NOEM WILL DRIVE BORDER AGENDA: TED CRUZ Billal Rahman, Newsweek, 13 November 2024 Texas Senator Ted Cruz said former ICE Director Tom Homan, recently nominated as President-elect Donald Trump’s “border czar,” will be the key figure in “driving” immigration policy at the southern border, rather than incoming Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. With Stephen Miller, who was appointed Deputy Chief of Policy, Trump has appointed a… Continue reading →