Factsheet

Disappeared: How the US Border Enforcement Agencies are Fueling a Missing Persons Crisis. Part 3 - Factsheet: Emergency Response in the Borderlands: Separate and Unequal

Author
La Coalición de Derechos Humanos, No More Deaths
Region
The Americas
Thematic Area
Law & Policies / The Search Process
Topic
Advocacy / Family Needs / Migration / Right to Know/Truth
Access
Open access

The Disappeared report series is collaborative project between two Tucson-based organizations, La Coalición de Derechos Humanos and No More Deaths. Between Derechos Humanos’ 20 years of community work, including the 24-hour Missing Migrant Crisis Line, and No More Deaths’ 12 years of humanitarian aid in the Arizona backcountry, we have witnessed and listened to thousands of stories of border crossings throughout Southern Arizona. Our research goals are transformative: to expose and combat those US government policing tactics that cause the crisis of death and mass disappearance in the borderlands. In this factsheet, la Coalición de Derechos Humanos and No More Deaths explains the separate and unequal emergency response system for undocumented border crossers in need of search and rescue.