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Review What I liked about your book: Although you were telling a very sad story of our migrants and the way they suffer, you make it very readable with clear language and flow. I am finding it hard to put down. I admire you so much for keeping all those records and then sharing them with us--your readers. It would be wonderful if NO MORE DEATHS could be made into a movie so more people (and the government) would learn of this factual story of how migrants coming to our country--the land of migrants--to be free, suffer. Thank you for all you did to bring this book together. ~Nancy�Thank you so much for letting me read some of the pages of your book. I am anxious to read the entire published version. I hope you will sign my copy.Congratulations on this wonderful accomplishment.�~Carol�Your persistence paid off for you. Your book is finished and being read by many people. ~Linnea�Recently, I was in a group where we were asked to connect in pairs and share with one another about a person who is an inspiration and role model to you in living a life of persistence and working for justice. A no brainer, as kids, say. I shared with my discussion partner about you and your husband and No More Deaths. I just finished my reading of your book, Sue, and am spreading the word about it--and lending out my copy. Thank you to you both for your leadership and your encouragement to us all. ~Nancy Read more From the Author THIS�BOOK�ADDRESSES�THE�CRISIS�in the southwestern part of the United States that has desperately needed governmental intervention since NAFTA was enacted in 1994. It documents how, in the meantime, dedicated volunteers have, for more than 15 years, filled the enormous gap left by a negligent government. Additionally, volunteers have provided relevant data to leaders to encourage them to enact immigration reform.You need to hear this story.No More Deaths is�a humanitarian organization that delivers food, water, and medical aid into the Southern Arizona desert to prevent migrants from dying, and it provides care to repatriated migrants along the border who need a variety of services.This book chronicles experiences from major efforts of the� humanitarian organization (called a movement by many), No More Deaths, from 2004-2019. No More Deaths addresses the political reality that many people don't want migrants from the south to come into the United States. This disapproval is reflected by the fact that since 2004, more than 3,000 Mexicans, Central Americans, and others have died in the Southern Arizona desert. More than 7,000 have died crossing into Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, and California combined. This is an unacceptable outcome of U.S. government policy that forces people into harsh desert terrain for their pilgrimage.Other solutions are possible and far less expensive. We'll address some of them in this book.Doris Meissner (former commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS] from 1993-2000) said in 2000, 'We did believe that geography would be an ally to us. It was our sense that the number of people crossing the border through Arizona would go down to a trickle once people realized what it's like.' Clearly, that has not happened--people are still willing to escape misery and die for their dreams.What is it like to die in the desert? Dr. Norma Price is one of the health professionals who provides training and on-call services to both No More Deaths and our sister organization, Tucson Samaritans. She describes it this way:People in the past have crossed the border back and forth to work in the U.S. while their families remained in Mexico. Following the passage of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) in 2004, it was anticipated that there would be more people coming north for work,so politicians closed off the traditional border crossing areas. Walls and increased militarization were employed along the border in Texas, California,and Nogales, Arizona; it was thought that the harsh conditions and terrain of the Southern Arizona Sonoran Desert would be a geographical barrier (as expressed above by Doris Meissner). But our government did not understand the determination of people to find work to feed their families. And their labor has always been needed here in the U.S. where many employers--including large corporations--are eager to hire hard-working people from south of the border to whom they pay low wages.All of this has resulted in a disaster region in the Southern Arizona borderland. Children, women, and men die from dehydration, hyperthermia (heat stroke), and hypothermia�(cold exposure or freezing to death). People continue to come out of desperation, the need to feed their families, and in order to reunite with parents and families from whom they have been separated. Until 2011, the number of deaths has continued to escalate. Now fewer people are crossing the border and fewer being apprehended, but the percentage of deaths to crossers has greatly increased.The more than 7000 known deaths along our southern border are people fleeing poverty, and children, women, and men coming to reunite with family. Since NAFTA was passed in the mid-90s, more than 3 million people have been displaced from their farms in Mexico. NAFTA has benefited U.S.agribusiness, but has devastated the small Mexican farmer. U.S.grown and U.S.-government-subsidized corn, sugarcane, and other agricultural products are cheaper for Mexican people to buy in Mexico than the same produce grown there locally.No one can tell you what it feels like to die in the desert, but it must be a horrible way to go. We do know the causes of death and, in some cases, we know some of the people's behavior prior to their death:bodies have been found where people stripped off all clothing, bodies have been found where the person had been digging in the sand or the earth; one woman who was rescued and taken to an intensive care unit had a mouth full of sand. We can hypothesize but will never know what they thought or felt.Possibly one of the saddest ramifications of death in the desert is the unknowing of families. Many, many of the human remains sent to the medical examiner's office are never identified. The families of these people will never know what happened. And we know there are countless more deaths than have been reported or found. Families call looking for loved ones with whom they've lost contact. They call the Coroner's Office, the hospitals,prisons, the Consulate, Border Patrol, and humanitarian groups. Many families will never know what befell their loved ones.One of Thousands--Tohono O'odham Nation 2008 (Michael Hyatt)When volunteers come across the remains of migrants, they find them in various states of disintegration. The dry desert wind and desert animals have usually already had a field day with any remains in their paths.The remains might be clothed or unclothed, with dry desiccated skin or just bones, intact or scattered around the death site--or possibly recently dead, with oozing sores and maggots in every orifice. Read more About the Author Sue Lefebvre is a former early childhood educator. Since the passage of NAFTA in 2004, she has been very interested in immigration issues--joining her husband, Gene, in Tucson, AZ volunteering with the humanitarian group No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes in Southern Arizona. Read more
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