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NEW: No More Deaths & La Coalición de Derechos Humanos detail how when 911 response systems receive distress calls from migrating people, those calls are transferred to Border Patrol. Overwhelmingly, the agency leaves people to die in the desert: https://www.prismreports.org/article/2021/2/5/border-patrol-policies-kill-hundreds-of-migrants-each-yearand-they-were-designed-to
This is what this looks like in practice:
In 1994 Border Patrol implemented a policy called Prevention Through Deterrence, which pushed people into more remote and dangerous areas of the borderlands. They also use tactics like chase and scatter that separate people from their groups, leaving them alone & disorientated.
When people who are dying or in distress call 911, they are transferred to Border Patrol. When the families of people who are lost call 911 or the police, they get transferred to Border Patrol-even though there's no evidence Border Patrol actually effectively provides aid.
This is the "system" Border Patrol utilized up until 2015.
So many migrants leave their home countries, make it to the U.S. borderlands, and after a call to their families telling them they are lost or their health is failing, they are never heard from again. They are disappeared.
We don't even have accurate numbers for how many people have been disappeared. Border Patrol's numbers each year are woefully inaccurate.
Before Border Patrol implemented Prevention Through Deterrence, they found an average of one set of human remains a month. For years now, remains are found once every three days.
The orgs behind the new report do not simply want "accountability" from BP. Hannah Taleb, co-author of the report, said there is no form of recourse that will address this crisis that leaves BP in control of what is happening because it's a crisis of the agency's own making.
The organizations may pursue a lawsuit against Border Patrol regarding its discriminatory practices. BP doesn't respond to 40% of emergency calls it receives regarding migrants in distress, and this is absolutely because the people in question are undocumented.
The report found that in 37% of cases when BP did mobilize search or rescue, the quality & scope of their efforts were seriously diminished when compared with government search & rescue standards for cases involving U.S. citizens in which there is a near 100% success rate.
You can read the new report -- Left to Die: Border Patrol, Search and Rescue, and the Crisis of Disappearance -- here: http://www.thedisappearedreport.org/uploads/8/3/5/1/83515082/left_to_die_-_english.pdf
If you want to help in some way, No More Deaths has a call to action: https://nomoredeaths.org/defund/
You can also donate to these humanitarian organizations working in the borderlands. They do search and rescue missions and they provide humanitarian aid to people who are migrating: https://linktr.ee/Borderlandssearchandrescue
