Part 2
This report details the intentional destruction of over 3,000 gallons of water left out for border crossers, implicating the US Border Patrol in the majority of this destruction. We document how Border Patrol agents engage in the widespread vandalism of gallons of water left for border crossers and routinely interfere with other humanitarian aid efforts in rugged and remote areas of the borderlands.
“As crimes pile up, they become invisible.”
-Bertolt Brecht

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Introduction:
A Crisis of Disappearance

In this introduction, meant for all three sections of the report, we explain this crisis of death and disapperance on the US-Mexico border and the policies that have created it.  This serves to set the scene for the following reports which open a window to violent Border Patrol practices.

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​Part 1
​In this first report, "Deadly Apprehension Methods," we find that people who cross the border and are never seen again do not merely go missing, they are disappeared by the US border-enforcement system. Using surveys from Nogales and data from the Derechos Humanos Missing Migrant Crisis Line, we find that the Border Patrol routinely chases border crossers into remote terrain causing them to scatter, become lost, and often die or disappear.
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