Amy Goodman
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How U.S. Border Patrol policy weaponizes the Sonoran Desert
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August 19, 2019
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7:18Now Playing"Prevention through deterrence" is the U.S. Border Patrol's policy for immigration enforcement that strategically militarizes urban areas along the border, deliberately steering migration into some of the harshest desert terrains on earth in order to "deter" migrants from crossing. But activists Scott Warren and Geena Jackson, who volunteer with the humanitarian aid group No More Deaths, say the policy has only heightened the risk of death for migrants. "We would find four human remains in just one day," says Jackson. "The loss of human life is immense. The amount of people who have disappeared family members and don't have the closure of knowing what happened to them is massive."
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