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Blood's Thicker Than Water: As Thousands Die in the Arizona Desert as a Result of U.S. Border Policy, an Army of Activists Intervenes

By Stephen Lemons February 25, 2010

Gene Lefebvre remembers the day in late August 2008 when 20 to 25 Border Patrol agents, half of them on horseback, raided the Arivaca, Arizona campsite of No More Deaths, a group dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance to... More >>>

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Vandalism and its response: A No More Deaths water jug, slashed, allegedly by a federal agent.

A message to all potential vandals, comparing the crime to murder.

Water bottles ready for reuse on a ranch near Byrd Camp.

No More Deaths co-founder Gene Lefebvre.

NMD volunteer Dan Millis, who discovered the body of Josseline Hernandez in the desert.

Entrance to the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge.

Josseline Hernandez, 14, in a photo that adorns the prayer card given out by No More Deaths.

Josseline's shrine in the canyon where her body was found, about 45 minutes from Byrd Camp.

A Border Patrol vehicle parked at a facility the agency shares with the Tohono O'odham Police Department. On the reservation, the Border Patrol is a ubiquitous presence.

Former Presbyterian pastor John Fife helped lead the Sanctuary Movement in the 1980s, and co-founded No More Deaths in 2004.

Tohono O'odham tribe member Mike Wilson leaves water jugs in the sign of the cross for migrants on the reservation.

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Entrance to the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge.

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Entrance to the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge.

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