The Samaritans - What They Do...

1. Search the desert and offer water, food and 1st aid to migrants who are suffering.

2. Call 911 / border patrol when migrants need medical attention.

3. Discourage migrants from crossing the desert by explaining risks and distances. When migrants want to return home, they call the border patrol.

4. Conduct "basura" / trash runs to gather possessions left behind in the desert.

5. Maintain relationships with Border Patrol and elected officials, encouraging them to address humanitarian and security needs.

6. Work with humanitarian groups for education.

7. Special projects and assisting Mexican NGO's to provide humanitarian aid to returnees to Sonora.

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