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Democracy Now! is produced with RenР“В©e Feltz, Mike Burke, Deena Guzder, Libby Rainey, Nermeen Shaikh, MarР“Вa Taracena, Carla Wills, Tami Woronoff, Charina Nadura, Sam Alcoff, Tey-Marie Astudillo, John Hamilton, Robby Karran. And weРІР‚в„ўll continue to show what happens there, and people can go to our website at to get our interviews with Scott Warren after he was arrested. So, less than 24 hours later, they started their intimidation tactics and surveillance.Р”Р„MY GOODMAN: And this was BORTAC, the same unit, the kind - the same group that has been going after Black Lives Matter in places like Portland, Oregon? We have five seconds.Р”Р„MY GOODMAN: Well, I want to thank so you much, Montana Thames, for joining us, humanitarian aid worker with No More Deaths. And the first time they entered camp without a warrant was on Thursday around 8 or 9 a.m. So, we released this report -Р’В released documents on Wednesday at about 11 a.m. So, in 2017, we released the Disappeared, Part 2, and about four hours later, Dr. JUAN GONZР“РѓLEZ: And, Montana, we only have about a minute left, but if you could talk about this whole issue of them raiding you just after you released a report, similar to what happened back in 2017, when a raid happened after you released a report? And it just like further proves their justification of dehumanizing migrants to justify their violence. And so, it just showed that they viewed the migrants as objects to be seized from the premises. And when they did show the warrant, the one thing that volunteers noticed was that on the warrant, under items to be seized, it said РІР‚Сљillegal aliens,РІР‚Сњ so meaning migrants. They disconnected the only water source that the camp has, which volunteers found later. They took all of our medical records and all of our phones that were in the office and on volunteers, for evidence. And Border Patrol, after they seized 30-plus migrants that were seeking food and medical attention, they proceeded to completely trash the camp. They described the accounts they were hearing on the radios as violent and scary.

The aid workers were able to overhear from the Border Patrol radios that there was chasing of migrants happening around them. It was very clear they didnРІР‚в„ўt want any witnesses for what they were about to do next. The whole shebang came out to neutralize this big threat.Р”В«ut immediately after they entered the camp, the first thing they did was round up all of the No More Deaths aid workers and zip-tie them, remove their phones. They were the first wave to neutralize any threat. They had a BORTAC BearCat tank enter the camp, alongside BORTAC agents with huge assault rifles walking into the camp. There was a helicopter 200 feet above the camp. They had about 24 Border Patrol agent trucks come in.

They had been surveilling, 24/7 surveillance, since Thursday morning on the camp. Thank you so much for having me.Р”В«ut like you said, it was a military-style raid that happened on Friday. They came after No More Deaths published documents revealing the Border Patrol Union, a pro-Trump and anti-immigrant extremist group, had instigated a 2017 raid of the same camp.Р”Р‡or more, we go to Tucson and are joined by Montana Thames, one of the humanitarian aid workers with No More Deaths. It was the second raid in just two days on the camp, which provides water, food and medical attention to refugees crossing into the United States through the scorching Sonoran Desert -Р’В the raids carried out by the Border PatrolРІР‚в„ўs BORTAC teams, the same militarized special operation units recently deployed to suppress protests in Portland, Oregon. IРІР‚в„ўm Amy Goodman, with Juan GonzР“РЋlez, as we end the todayРІР‚в„ўs show in Arizona, where heavily armed Border Patrol officers raided a medical camp of humanitarian group No More Deaths Friday, detained 30 migrants, whose whereabouts are still unknown. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! The Quarantine Report.

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