Deadly Border Crossings (tags)
“Operation Gatekeeper is the policy of death. It stains our land with the blood of our neighbors, and pierces the hearts of our people.” - Henry Ramon, tribal vice chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation.
Deaths in the desert: the sad price of U.S. border policy (tags)
Three months pregnant, Norma Rodriguez Amado had watched her husband, Paez Martinez, as he left his home in Morales, Mexico, for the United States. He would support his family from afar, working in the states of Tennessee and Florida. After almost two-and-a-half years of living and working in these faraway places, Paez returned to Morales to see his son, Alexander, for the first time.