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Migrant Border Deaths Surge with 'Increased Enforcement and Militarization,' Expert Says


Migrant Border Deaths Surge with Increased Enforcement and Militarization, Expert Says
On 5/4/21 at 8:51 AM EDT
In southern Arizona s Sonoran Desert, where temperatures can get as high as 125, the Tucson-based nonprofit No More Deaths operates a humanitarian aid camp for migrants making their way north through the barren, sun-bleached landscape.
At a minimum, almost everyone who comes to the camp suffers from exposure and dehydration, Sammy Rovner, a volunteer with the agency s media team, said. In the winter months, some suffer from hypothermia, having made the trip through the nearby mountains. Many migrants show up with knee injuries, scrapes, and blisters across the bottoms of their feet. ....

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Imagine a World Without Borders - YES! Magazine


Imagine a World Without Borders
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Walls and fences at national borders enforce inequality, racial divides, and climate catastrophe. But most of them began as invisible lines in the sand.
For decades, Todd Miller has reported on borders and the conflicts they create. In his new book, Build Bridges, Not Walls
, Miller invites us to envision a borderless world, one better-equipped for our collective survival. In this excerpt, he describes the militarized U.S.-Mexico border and considers recent history, when the border was more permeable and life on both sides more interconnected.
Below us in Nogales, the agent abruptly halted his lecture and tore up the hill again, spitting gravel from his wheels. I was relieved, because you never know how such a scene might play out. Every day such displays of asymmetrical power take place, small acts of aggression that never make the news. Before long, the agent returned to his perch under the camer ....

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