Interesting enough, a known fact in the film business, is that objective documentaries don’t go to far.  Without courting one side or the other while riling  up the opposite  view, a good objective presentation just doesn’t get the attention here as it does internationally. I guess the American public is so used to being entertained, that major media just has to sensationalize story segments slanted toward the particular viewpoint of their viewers. No thought process is required with this agenda so compassion fades and the gap widens.

I am honored to be a guest speaker and take part in this international exchange of ideas. It is very important to present an objective insight to the border and immigration debacle from here in Southern Arizona.  I look forward to bringing new ideas and possibilities back and opening new discussions here at my TC blog.

“Living on the Border” documentary series and blog is back after a long winters rest. Actually I had to stop for a while and make a real living in fine art. (www.karlwhoffman.com)

Originally I told my wife that I wanted to take 5 years off to document the happenings here on the border and produce the documentary “Living on the Border”. This project is my gift to future generations. However, I was informed last fall that it had been 6 years. I do owe a special thanks to my wife Audrey for all her support and understanding of the importance of this project so as of now she is my official assistant and will have to accompany me to Paris.

Starting with a solo exhibit of my border photography at the Tubac Center of the Arts the beginning of the documentary was born.  Six years later, thousands of hours in the field, post production editing,  and freelancing for major publications (internationally) the  film premiered at the loft cinema to a packed house.

Thanks to all the wonderful people, organizations, and government agencies, who have showed such great support and encouragement for the “Living on the Border” documentary series.

Arivaca is a small quiet border town in the middle of nowhere but at the center of everything. Struggling to maintain a normal rural lifestyle while recovering form the preverbal border war zone, Arivaca has its hidden gems.  Contrary to mainstream media sensationalism the people of Arivaca have a unique  comfort and acceptance of multicultural and quiet varied political views.   Magnified in the various community projects Arivaca locals  are always ready to support area functions with a warm and friendly welcome to visitors

Photo by Karl W Hoffman

The small farmers market that grew over the years from two women sitting under a tree selling their eggs and cheese is now grown to a budding farmers market called “Marian’s Market.”  Open from 9am to noon every Saturday the local produced products and organic produce are worth the drive. For more information visit the Arivaca on line news and directory

Photo by Karl W Hoffman

Nestled in the hills of the high Sonornan Desert Arivaca has a lot to offer.  Before the market as you are coming into Arivaca is the Cafe Aribac for a great cup of coffee or breakfast. After visiting the market, try the Arivaca Artist Co op and The Cactus Rose Gallery or a cold one at the Cantina.  Opening soon is Sweet Peas Cuisine, Cafe and Catering, offering 3 great meals a day.  The Arivaca Mercantile will surprise you and the drive to Arivaca Lake or through the 117,000 acres of the Buenos  Aries Wildlife Refuge is a rewarding experience. Area Links

Photo by Karl W Hoffman

Mark you calendars for  other Arivaca events and come back here for coverage.

Saturday November 5th 2011

The Day of the Dead and Annual Folklorico Festival and Parade, starting at 11:00 am

Saturday, November 19th

3rd Annual Grassland Fair at Buenos Aries National Wildlife Refuge

Exhibits, Demonstrations, Music, Crafts and Food, Talks and Walks.

Karl W Hoffman

Activist Alison Bane (Miller) McLeod DOB 1963, photo from the video " Border Patrol in The Bushes"

Bisbee anti government activist, Alison Bane McLeod lives at 939 E Border Rd AZ (520-432-1476), a few miles east of Bisbee where she confronted Customs and Border Patrol Agents from the Horse Patrol in the process of apprehending illegal border crossers.  Holding a video camera McLeod approached the agents and was asked courteously, not to video their faces (this is on the film.) McLeod ignored their request, got closer with her video camera and began verbally heckling them and then asking questions.  She was repeatedly asked to stand aside and not film their faces or the face of the man in custody but simply ignored their requests.  One of the CPB agents then explained to her that they were not authorized to answer her questions and gave her the number at CBP headquarters where she could contact a public relations officer.  This is standard procedure for just about every agency from police to fire departments and many corporate entities.

McLeod took detailed video of the CPB Agents after being asked repeatedly not to video their faces, then irresponsibly posted a very derogatory video showing the CBP Agents faces on YouTube. YouTube removed the video.  The border in that area has become a very dangerous sector and it is definitely a reasonable request for CBP Agents to want to protect their anonymity and respect the identity of the man in custody.

McLeod states she has the right to video government officials in public but these men where government workers doing an assigned job. Professional multimedia reporters have the courtesy and respect for agents safety, and blur direct face shots if the video is of course not accusatory but still news worthy.    This video was neither, but if anything should prevail in the video, it would be how the CBP Agents handled the situation with a great deal of patients and professionalism in dealing with McLeod and the respect showed for the individual in custody.

This shoddy video is merely another piece in the No More Deaths campaign (Culture of Cruelty) to systematically assault  US Customs and Border Protection. McLeod was immediately  defended by the ACLU. Of course  McLeod did not include any personal information of her own in the video. McLeod’s information in this article came form public web search.

An interesting note is that McLeod had no concern for any rights but her own when she even used copyrighted music of the popular James Bond Series as the soundtrack for her video which the ACLU posted on their website with total disregard for copy right protection laws, the safety of CPB Agents or the rights of the man in custody.

ACLU Says Bisbee Activist Has First Amendment Right to Post Border Patrol Video on YouTube     

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, September 30, 2011

CONTACT:

Alessandra Soler Meetze, ACLU of Arizona, (602) 773-6006 (office) or 602-301-3705

PHOENIX – In a letter sent Thursday to YouTube administrators, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona criticized the online company for censoring a video of United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents arresting a man with a bloody nose.

The 5-minute video, dubbed “Border Patrol in the Bushes,” was taken by Bisbee activist Alison McLeod, who pulled out her video camera and started filming Border Patrol agents arresting an individual after she heard helicopters and saw several agents, on horseback and on foot, on her property on August 31^st.  The video shows four CBP agents walking an individual in handcuffs through her property to a white CBP truck parked on a public road. McLeod posted it on YouTube on September 2^nd where it received “hundreds” of views within hours. Ten days after the video was posted, YouTube officials took it down, citing privacy complaints by CBP agents.

“This is yet another example of a private online community trampling on our First Amendment rights and trying to exercise greater control over what we share and watch online,” said Alessandra Soler Meetze, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona. “People have the right to film government officials carrying out their duties in public places. By censoring this type of protected speech, YouTube officials not only violated their own guidelines, but they’ve managed to silence debate around U.S. immigration practices along the U.S.-Mexico border.”

According to YouTube, three complaints about the video were filed; two of them were posted by CBP agents. Within hours of the YouTube posting, a CBP supervisor showed up unannounced at McLeod’s doorstep, telling her 19-year-old daughter who was home at the time that he was inquiring about the YouTube video. The agent then offered to give McLeod and her daughter a tour of the Border Patrol facilities and the local search area.

“This is the reality of border enforcement for those of us living on the border,” said McLeod, who has been living on the border since 1997. “Rather than trying to intimidate residents like me who are simply trying to make CBP more accountable to the public, they should respect the rights of all people living on the border.”

The ACLU sent a separate letter to the CBP’s Tucson Field Office, arguing their involvement in trying to remove the video constitutes “severe government interference with McLeod’s constitutional rights.”

“Customs and Border Protection is now the nation’s largest federal law enforcement agency and it operates with total impunity, accountable to no one and with little government oversight,” added Meetze. “This video and CBP’s response to it underscores the need for greater transparency.”

Although YouTube has privacy guidelines that allow them to remove content where an individual is “uniquely identifiable,” the ACLU argues in its letter to both YouTube and CBP that public officials have no reasonable expectation of privacy while exercising their official duties in public places. The ACLU letter also points out that “nothing distinguishes McLeod’s videos from the hundreds of videos already on YouTube demonstrating various law enforcement activities.”

“YouTube boasts that it is the biggest news platform in the world,” wrote ACLU of Arizona Legal Director Dan Pochoda in his three-page letter to YouTube. “One of the goals of a free press is to hold government officials accountable for their actions. Granting law enforcement a de facto veto over materials they find objectionable or unflattering would violate and jeopardize that mission.”

The letter to YouTube asks the company to allow McLeod to repost her video and any future videos of government officials performing their duties. The ACLU also is asking CBP to stop interfering with McLeod’s efforts to videotape and photograph CBP activities on her own property or public land, and to rescind its complaints seeking the removal of the video from YouTube.

Click here to read the letter to YouTube.

Click here to read the letter to CBP’s Tucson Field Office.

 

A remake of the video titled Border Patrol in the Bushes Dos has been posted again on YouTube.

Update:  Alison McLeod now tries to silence this blog 

Attacking the United States Border Patrol with such wild and fictitious allegations is totally irresponsible. The fact is that this action is merely a smoke screen to divert attention from their illegal activities.

They claim to be faith-based humanitarians, except by the social and cultural standards of the United States they are just antigovernment anarchists.

This new book, Culture of Cruelty by No More Deaths is no better than the previous one in that it is entirely based on hearsay information from a biased source. Not independent moderation of oversight, they just wrote it.

Hear say evidence has never been admissible in a court of law. Even if you swear that the story you heard is correct and you swear that you have not embellished it for you own gains. Interview techniques are the same as surveys you can prove anything by the way the question is asked and then recorded and then presented. This applies to both sides of the coin. If you are going to put on the gloves lets be honorable, fair in our presentations and professional and objective in the information gathering.

It is called the “chain of evidence”  (physical or real property) Interviews, statements confessions, etc, must be recorded or signed and notarized and the victim must be available to testify under oath in a court of law. There are many criminal cases that are dismissed because this chain was broken or not conducted properly.

If law enforcement where allowed to collect evidence in the manner that NMDs did in their new book, we could just wing our constitution out the window and embrace a dictatorship.

As quoted in part from the 6th Amendment:

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.

Border Patrol Agents must be allowed the same rights as all United States citizens.

Excerpt from “Living on the Border” Documentary 

Controlling the media was very important, so not only did they bring in their own international media teams sympathetic to their cause but they began carefully screening journalists who wanted to cover their work in the field and any that are approved, are assigned special media persons and given a false tour with no interaction with volunteers who have not been briffed or illegal migrants.

They also realized that right wing conservative news won’t criticize faith based humanitarian groups and left wing liberals are supportive of it with out asking to many questions. This puts government officials and politicians in an uneasy spot.  So with decades of experience No More Deaths and the Samaritan’sleaders who were no strangers to organizing anti government tactics, began their new agenda by first creating a cloud of false government persecution in which to operate under.

First there is “Abuse Documentation” or stories they have heard or made up that will foster sympathy for their cause and open a can of worms for any government agency that takes to close a look at their activities. Playing this abuse documentation angle also keeps them very well funded, with large grants from the Unitarian Universalistic Funding Program and tens of thousands of tax free dollars from other churches and non profit activist groups under the disguise of the Social Justice Ministry. The term they like to use for their actions is “Civil Initiative”, nothing more than a gentle  for euphemism for revolutionary or anarchist.  To give this trump card an air of validity, they even published a book.

Feature length documentary is available on DVD at www.livingontheborder.com

Karl W Hoffman

Documentary Film Producer

Freelance Photojournalist

Multimedia Reporter

For information on photography exhibits and prints, lectures, interviews, photo usage, border tours and to order the documentary on DVD and view Living on the Border documentary trailer please visit: www.skullcreekmedia.com

A rally to celebrate the release of the new book was held at the Unitarian-Universalist Church in Tucson. Then a fired up group headed to Customs and Border Protection Headquarters to hold a demonstration in hopes of giving their cause some validity and gain some attention.  They got neither.

Arriving at BP Headquarters one could only chuckle at the circus like procession with actors dressed in costumes. Led by the famous instigator, John Fife, of course today he was the Reverend John Fife, dressed in his black shirt and white collar. Then came the “Professionals”  lady attorneys in their suites, hippies, volunteers in earth clothing, activists in all their glory, doctors and nurses in scrubs and lab coats complete with stethoscopes around their necks and followed by minstrels playing guitars and singing, but there were no jugglers just a gaggle of amateur photographers and videographers recording the debacle.

Border Patrol gates where closed to the dismay of the procession.  Heads where hung, signs and posters were rolled up, camera crews packed it in, and the activist left in a very anticlimactic exit. What ever their grand plans were, they never came to fruition.

Of course the liberal bloggers have claimed it a great success and major media this time of year is always looking for a filler.

Excerpt from Living on the Border Documentary series 

With decades of experience dating back to the Sanctuary movement,  No More Deaths and the Samaritan’s leaders who are no strangers to organizing anti government tactics. They began their new agenda by first creating a cloud of false government persecution in which to operate under. First there is “Abuse Documentation” or stories they have heard or made up that will foster sympathy for their cause and open a can of worms for any government agency that takes to close a look at their activities.

Playing this abuse documentation angle also keeps them very well funded, with large grants from the Unitarian Universalistic Funding Program and tens of thousands of tax free dollars from other churches and non profit activist groups under the disguise of the Social Justice Ministry. The term they like to use for their actions is “Civil Initiative”, nothing more than a gentle  for euphemism for revolutionary or anarchist.  To give this trump card an air of validity, they even published a book in September of 2008, “Crossing the Line” with over 100 pages of the most horrendous accusations, in the form of written accounts and affidavits, based solely on hearsay, against U.S. Border Patrol Agents working in the field and detention facilities that had never been visited. Down load PDF version of the book “Crossing the Line” This hearsay documentation was actually presented at Congressional briefing in Washington D.C., hosted by Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.). The U.S Border Patrol says that these allegations are false. Rep. Grialva has long been a supporter of No More Deaths and the Samaritan’s work as well as their cause.

If something works, why not try it again?  So another book is published and a larger smoke screen has been created to operate an illegal smuggling operation.

For more information on the subversive antigovernment history of No More Deaths: When Humanitarian Aid Really Does Become a Crime

Young man at the border fence attempting to return to his family. Photo by Karl W Hoffman

The Obama administration has already deported more than 1 MILLION people.

So I went to the border, not just a border crossing but the border between America and Mexico deep in the Sonoran Desert to personally ask an illegal border crosser, why?

The answer I got;  This young man said he had been working in a restaurant in Illinois. He has been in the US for over 15 years, originally coming across as a child with his parents. Juan (not his real name) has a wife and children he is supporting. He was stopped for a tail light out and arrested for being in this country illegally. Juan spent the next few months in a detention facility and then was transported to Arizona and deported at Nogales.  His entire family had to contribute to raising the $2,000 it would take to pay for the Coyote to get him back into the US plus travel expenses.

Separate the issues of drugs and criminal actions, forget your party or your stand on border security and immigration and lets look at this from a purely logical and objective viewpoint.  Lets forget that Juan is here illegally and how and why he got or came here and whither or not he should be here. It is a case of human nature and the bonds we adhere to.  Just the fact that a man or women is separated from his or her family and transported several thousand miles away in another country does not mean he or she will not return to his or her family.  This is who we are as people! Holocaust victims have spent their entire lives searching for their lost loved ones. Every one of us would do the same thing.

Taxpayers are going to pay for a public defender and the prosecution, plus the court costs, inflated incarceration fees, transportation and deportation, then of course for the family to go on welfare. The icing on this cake is that the Cartels laugh all the way to the bank with the family’s savings. So is deportation a great idea?

Even if one has no compassion for families being torn apart or the immense financial burden on U.S taxpayers, how hard is it to see some simple solutions that even a politician could understand?  Secure the Border by any and all means, and then repair the country through comprehensive immigration reform by whatever the citizens of the U.S deem to be fair and compassionate. I do have great faith in the humanitarian and civil rights directions that our country eventually takes but immigration reform will not happen over night.

There should be plenty of fodder for liberals, humanitarians and open border activist to keep them busy away from the border, anti government types can sign up for voluntary deportation, the Sierra Club has enough to do in their own back yard, and No More Deaths can concentrate on their Middle East projects, conservatives can quit worrying about the foreign invasion and the high cost of ammo, and the minutemen can go home and drink beer knowing they helped defend our country.  Did I leave anyone out? Oh yea, Russell Pierce and Raul Grijalva can please just fade away and empty the prison space can be used for a new reality show “Break Out.”

Karl W Hoffman

Documentary Film Producer

Freelance Photojournalist

Multimedia Reporter

Reporting from the field not the desk

For information on photography exhibits and prints, lectures, interviews, photo usage, border tours and to order the documentary on DVD and view Living on the Border documentary trailer please visit: www.skullcreekmedia.com

The drug business in Mexico is booming but so is the jobless rate.  Desperation is gripping this country as organized crime takes over government enterprises. There is an army of street thugs stealing every thing and any thing to survive and hyaenas crimes are rampant. Violence has spilled over, exploiting illegal immigration, people smuggling and armed robberies of drug shipments on the US side and it is not just limited to the border areas any more, but at destination points through out our country.

At the top, cartels are expanding into large scale theft of Mexico’s natural resources by strong arming their way into the lumber industry with armed caravans invading timber rich areas with every intention of clear cutting. With money, there comes corruption and the ability to buy technology, so taping into pipelines to steal huge quantities of fuel should be of no surprise. Cutting into the government budget will have a catastrophic affect on the government’s  ability to keep what little control it has over the federal police or the army. The  take over of the cell phone business, one of the only privately owned monopolies in Mexico will be a prize for sure.  Its a dangerous free for all down there, its right next door and incase any one hasn’t noticed, the doors are wide open.

Mexican Gangs Stealing Growing Amounts of Fuel

 

Published June 19, 2011

| The Wall Street Journal

The 1900 mile border between America and Mexico stretches throughout four states, where border security and illegal immigration issues poses much of the same dynamics.  The main difference is that the demography of southern Arizona is mostly retirement communities that only started to thrive after WWII when air conditioning was invented.  New Mexico, Texas and California have had centuries on multicultural intertwining and have an understanding of the difference between the working hispanic community, the migrant workforce, illegal immigration and drug smuggling, all quite separate entities. Arizona has become a magnet for attracting liberal activists, so called humanitarians, the Sierra Club, incompetent  politicians on both sides, sensationalizing media, and dime store novelists, the list goes on. The common ground is that those who come  here to Arizona have no concept about the true nature of the border dynamics, they only focus of their own particular agendas, and are blind to the big picture. Lumping all of the complex issues of the border and immigration debacle into one bag and labeling it raciest, is ludicrous and makes solutions impossible.  Subversive left wing anti government activists seem to enjoy tying the hands of law enforcement and government agencies with out any grasp or concern as to the collateral damage they may cause and fuzzing up the right wing conservatives is just icing on the cake. Are we getting anywhere? No

The border has become a dangerous place, this must be accepted. In Texas where the US Border Patrol works together with law enforcement agencies things are handled quite different.  Calling in an elite law enforcement agency familiar with the border arena, such as the Texas Rangers, to help fight the drug trade and control border violence while protecting all ethnicities is not racist.

photo by Karl W Hoffman

US News and World Report, “your photos are awesome” Stephen Rountree Graphics Director, Published in the June 25th 2007 issue

Yale University Press, London, “Living on the Border is a fascinating physical, social and psychological state”. 
Robert Baldock, Editor & Managing Director

The Indypendent, New York, “Karl W. Hoffman has captured the raw moments along the Arizona-Mexico border that challenge the human tendency to draw invisible 
lines through the landscape and people’s lives. His work is of international significance, from the Sonoran Desert to NY/NY.” Jessica Lee

Tucson Weekly “As an eyewitness to the continuing tragedies, Hoffman brings his camera to the most dangerous areas along the border.” Margaret Regan

My Border Tours and Expeditions are all inclusive, either for a one day tour starting in Arivaca or an expedition package with transportation form Tucson international airport, including meals and accommodations. The main part of the one day tour is through the harsh conditions of the Sonoran Desert to the walls, fences and remote barricades (how effective they really are) that mark the border and the migrant trails. Tours and expeditions can be tailored to your needs and the area of border issues that you are most interested in, along with subject specific interviews. Guided tours include explanations on sites, and terrain,with all the information contained in my lectures about the dynamics of the border phenomenon with in depth discussion. This is a total emersion into the border arena with late afternoon hikes and evening discussions. Evening workshops in postproduction editing, photography, audio and video are also available.

Karl W Hoffman

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Photo by Karl W Hoffman

Humanitarian Organizations have decided to start their own remembrance on this important day by having a press conference and  launching the official start of “The Migrant Trail” a 75 mile walk to honor illegal immigration and the deaths in the desert as a result of  criminal behavior.  I convey my personal sympathy for those you have lost their lives sneaking into the United States and the broken system that surounds every aspect of the immigration and border security debacle. I have dedicated the past 7 years of my life to raising border awareness through objective presentations, exposing the hidden agendas of  groups capitalizing on the migrant targets and media sensationalism through my documentary “Living on the Border” and my website www.livingontheborder.com. Without debating the immigration issues here because I have chastised all sides at different times, I must say that it breaks my heart to see that we the people of both nations are at the mercy of right wing radicals, left wing activists, politicians, organized crime, humanitarian organizations, hate groups and government greed and we are now  in a place where no compromise is allowed and solutions are all or nothing.

Many of marchers are anti government activists, open border advocates, and bleeding hearts, and the same ones demanding that hispanic studies be taught and their culture respected. I don’t have a problem with that, ones roots are important, but it is a two way street and respect is earned not demanded. Respect this country, it’s laws and history and you just may get respect. Unfortunately the groups listed below don’t feel they have to respect their own county, The United States of America, and there  is where the problem  lies.

The Migrant Trail
Arizona Border Rights Foundation

 

A 75 mile walk from Sásabe, Sonora, MX to Tucson, AZThrough Sonoran Desert Brings Attention to Migrant Deaths

The precarious reality of our borderlands calls us to walk.  We are a spiritually diverse, multi-cultural group who walk together on a journey of peace to remember people, friends and family who have died, others who have crossed, and people who continue to come.  We bear witness to the tragedy of death and of the inhumanity in our midst.  Lastly, we walk as a community, in defiance of the borders that attempt to divide us, committed to working together for the human dignity of all peoples.

Press Conference

Monday, May 30, 2011

10:00 AM

317 W. 23rd Street

Tucson, Arizona

Tucson, AZ-    On May 30, 2011, a diverse group of more than sixty individuals will begin a 75 mile walk to call attention to the human rights crisis occurring on the southern border. The eighth annual Migrant Trail: We Walk for Life is a joint endeavor of community groups and individuals from both sides of the border walking in solidarity with migrants to demand an end to the deaths in the desert.

“For the eighth year we stand together in solidarity with migrants and call for an end to the tragic deaths and division of communities along the U.S.-Mexico border,” says Kat Rodriguez of Derechos Humanos.  “Thousands of men, women, and children have died due to border policies that have funneled them into the most hostile and desolate areas of the Sonoran desert.  This must stop.”

Since the 1990s, it is estimated that more than 6,000 men, women and children have lost their lives crossing the U.S./Mexico border.  As the summer approaches, and Arizona begins to experience triple-digit temperatures, the number of migrants encountering medical distress or death increases dramatically.  Many will die the horrible death of dehydration and exposure. These deaths, a direct result of U.S. border and immigration policies, must be prevented.

The Walk will begin Monday, May 30 at 2:00pm in Sásabe, Sonora.  Carpools will depart at 11am from Southside Presbyterian (317 W. 23rd Street).  Participants will arrive on Sunday, June 5th at 11:00am at Kennedy Park, Ramada #3, for a closing ceremony. The Migrant Trail is a non-violent event, and is free and open to the community.  Participants and organizers of the Migrant Trail call on all people of conscience to stand in solidarity with our migrant sisters and brothers.

“The Migrant Trail is an important spiritual witness to the challenging reality of our borderlands today,” says Dan Abbott of University Presbyterian Church in Tempe, Arizona.  “It is a moral imperative that we stand in solidarity with our migrant brothers and sisters, demand humane border policies of our government, and call all people of conscience to take immediate action.”

Sponsors of the Migrant Trail: Coalición de Derechos Humanos, BorderLinks, Casa Maria, JPIC Office of the St. Barbara Province Francsiscans, Shalom Mennonite, Tucson Buddhist Meditation Center, Migrant Workers Solidarity Network (MWSN), Newman Center at UA, Green Valley/Saguarita Samaritans, Church of the Good Shepherd, No More Deaths- Tucson, REA Communications, Restoration Project, Humane Borders, St. John’s Episcopal Church of Mount Pleasant, Shalom House- Philadelphia, Mennonite Central Committee-US, Calpolli Teoxicalli, Coloradans for Immigrant Rights, AFSC Colorado, Principe de Paz Church, Café Justo, University Presbyterian Church, Tucson SOA Watch, No More Deaths- Phoenix, Southside Presbyterian Church, and Tucson Samaritans.

Migrant Trail Bears Witness to Human Rights Crisis:

The Migrant Trail

c/o Arizona Border Rights Foundation
P.O. Box 1286 Tucson, AZ 85702
Tel: 520.770.1373
migrant_trail@yahoo.com

www.derechoshumanosaz.net

Contact: Marisol Flores-Aguirre: 520-622-2190

Derechos Humanos: 520-770-1373

 

On this day we as Americans honor all of the brave men and women who have given the greatest sacrifice  to protect this country and the freedoms of it’s people. Memorial day is a nationally observed day and as a part of our American heritage it should be observed and respected with the deepest of reverence.