To avoid being victims of any risk or crime, law enforcement authorities Sonora Y Arizona, during the launch of the preventive dissemination program “The Dangers of the Desert“, They exhorted migrants to avoid crossing illegally to USA and to call 9-1-1 in any emergency.
Representing the secretary of Public security of the state David Anaya Cooley, the state coordinator of the Control, Command, Computing, Communication and Intelligence Center (C5i), Guadalupe Lares Nunez, Sabri Dikman, head of the Tucson Border Patrol Y Michael Montgomery, director of air operations of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), agreed that the priority of this program is to save lives.
With the presence of the Consuls of Mexico, Rafael Barceló Durazo, and from Guatemala, Carlos Enrique de Leon, Juanita Molina placeholder image Executive Director of Humane Borders / Compassionate Borders Y Hector Servín de la Mora, regional coordinator of the C5i Nogales, the US authorities exposed to the media the risks that migrants face when trying to cross illegally.
Dehydration, poisonous insect bites, reptile bites, attacks by ferocious animals, thirst, hunger and even being victims of some crime, are the main risks that migrants face when entering the desert, they pointed out during the conference. press.
For this reason, the Border Patrol and the C5i Sonora, in coordinated actions with the purpose of saving lives, join efforts with the support of technology to rescue migrants who ask for help, said Lares Núñez.
In her speech, Sabri Dikman, head of the Tucson Border Patrol, made an energetic call to traffickers or “polleros” not to put the life and health of children, adolescents, women, men, and the elderly first.
Michael Montgomery, director of air operations of CBP highlighted the coordination and collaboration by the Sonoran authorities and recognized the geolocation system Carbyne implemented by C5i Sonora, which so far has managed to secure 450 migrants.
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