Law School Events
This calendar presented by
Law School
[PAST EVENT] Mike Wilson, Human Rights Activist, "Migrant Deaths in Indian Country"
February 23, 2012
4pm - 5:30pm
Arizona has become the epicenter for undocumented immigration into the United States. Thousands of migrants risk their lives to cross the hostile Sonora Desert of southern Arizona every year.
For hundreds of them this is their last journey, succumbing to dehydration and heat exhaustion.
In an effort to prevent their suffering and deaths, Mike Wilson, a Tohono O'odham human rights activist, has maintained water stations since 2002 for migrants crossing on his tribal land, the Tohono O'odham Reservation.
Wilson will talk about the effects of U.S. border enforcement policy in Indian country and the moral responsibility of offering your fellow human being a cup of water.
For hundreds of them this is their last journey, succumbing to dehydration and heat exhaustion.
In an effort to prevent their suffering and deaths, Mike Wilson, a Tohono O'odham human rights activist, has maintained water stations since 2002 for migrants crossing on his tribal land, the Tohono O'odham Reservation.
Wilson will talk about the effects of U.S. border enforcement policy in Indian country and the moral responsibility of offering your fellow human being a cup of water.
Contact
[[jbmend, Jennifer Bickham Mendez]]