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16 JULY 2007 -- NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: SILVIA GONZALEZ, a social worker from the Mexican state of Sonora, talks to immigrants from the Mexican state of Oaxaca who had been deported from the United States at the No More Deaths aid station near the Mexican port of entry in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. No More Deaths and the Sonora state government set up the aid station in 2006 to help Mexican immigrants deported from the US from across the US Border Patrol station in Nogales, Arizona. Volunteers at the aid station provide immigrants, many of whom spend days in the desert before being apprehended by the US Border Patrol, with food and water and rudimentary first aid. The immigrants then go back to their homes in Mexico or into Nogales to make another effort at crossing the border. Volunteers said they help between 600 and 1,000 immigrants per day. The program costs about .60¢ per person to operate. So far this year they've helped more than 130,000 people. Photo by Jack Kurtz

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16 JULY 2007 -- NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: SILVIA GONZALEZ, a social worker from the Mexican state of Sonora, talks to immigrants from the Mexican state of Oaxaca who had been deported from the United States at the No More Deaths aid station near the Mexican port of entry in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. No More Deaths and the Sonora state government set up the aid station in 2006 to help Mexican immigrants deported from the US from across the US Border Patrol station in Nogales, Arizona. Volunteers at the aid station provide immigrants, many of whom spend days in the desert before being apprehended by the US Border Patrol, with food and water and rudimentary first aid. The immigrants then go back to their homes in Mexico or into Nogales to make another effort at crossing the border. Volunteers said they help between 600 and 1,000 immigrants per day. The program costs about .60¢ per person to operate. So far this year they've helped more than 130,000 people. Photo by Jack Kurtz
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