I visited Tucson (Arizona) and Nogales (Sonora, Mexico) over the past week for the regional No Borders Camp meeting which was held at the Dry River anarchist collective just out of downtown Tucson. It was a lot of fun seeing old friends, meeting new ones (including two Australians), sleeping in tents next to mile long freight trains that run all night, almost freezing to death, and trying not to walk in to giant cacti. With any luck I will be back for a few months over summer if all goes to plan
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Sunset in Tucson
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Living in a police-state: an internal border/immigration check point, probably 50 miles from the actual border somewhere in Arizona
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The Dry River collective in Tucson
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Looking out from A-Hill over downtown Tucson
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6.30am freezing to death on A-Hill
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Saturday morning meeting for the No Border Camp organizing
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Giant cacti!
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Meeting some local activists in Nogales, Mexico by the border wall
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Drawing the attention of the U.S. Border Patrol air surveillance
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Con mi amiga nueva Australiana en la linea
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At the No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes tent just inside Nogales at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing checkpoint. NMD helps approximately 300-500 recently deported migrants per day who have been caught by the Border Patrol crossing undocumented and are then returned by bus. Nogales or other border cities where they are returned are commonly not where the migrants are from, and with no money left, having spent it on guides to help them cross, they are left homeless and often separated from their children or partners who escaped capture
www.nomoredeaths.org
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At points the fence turns into nothing, but if you look closely you can see the camoflague tent of the U.S. National Guard, recently deployed to patrol the border