Each year, untold numbers of migrants disappear in the borderlands after being pushed into dangerous and remote terrain by Border Patrol, the same agency that is then tasked with responding to migrants\u2019 search and rescue emergencies. A new report released Wednesday found that the federal agency does not respond to 40% of these emergency calls. In a\u00a0series of reports\u00a0published over the course of five years, the southern Arizona organizations No More Deaths and La Coalici\u00f3n de Derechos Humanos have cataloged and reported the specific Border Patrol policies and tactics that have fueled a crisis of death and disappearance in the borderlands. The first report, released in 2016,\u00a0detailed\u00a0the 1994 Border Patrol policy \u201cPrevention Through Deterrence\u201d in which the United States militarized<\/p>\n
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