Description

Three years after publishing the 2011 calendar, little has changed regarding migrant deaths in the Arizona desert. Humanitarian groups continue to provide aid. But the proportion of deaths to number of apprehensions has actually increased. Augmenting militarization of the border has led to more agents and drones and talk of more walls to placate immigration reform foes. Developments of concern since 2011 include cross-border killing of Mexican citizens by Border Patrol agents. The death of 16-year old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez being one tragic example.

Operation Streamline criminalizes 70 migrants at Tucson’s federal courthouse each weekday enriching prison profiteers to the tune of $600,000+ tax dollars each day. Activists working to oppose this dehumanizing system shut down Streamline for a day on October 10, 2013, chaining themselves to Border Patrol prisoner transport buses.

In these 12 images, photographers provide us with visual insight to this heartbreaking reality. Social justice dates of interest and quotes by humanitarian leaders round out the focus of this 2014 calendar.

Sample Photos

Earlier in the year activists gathered at Senator John McCain’s Tucson office to protest his push for more walls regardless of habitat and environmental destruction.

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