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Timeless        Shura Wallin Explains the Samaritan Mission      3 minutes    Arizona Highways Videographer
This clip honors Shura Wallin, who received the Hon Kachina Volunteer Award in 2012. It is Arizona's most prestigious celebration of volunteerism.  The video also features Samaritans Harry Smith, Chris Amaroso and Judith Whipple.

​2022     Humanitarian Aid in the Borderlands   Amy Knight

Attorney Amy Knight on the legal rights of migrants and humanitarian aid workers to receive and give humanitarian aid.
Amy Knight is a criminal defense and civil rights attorney in Tucson. She is a graduate of Vassar College, the University of Arizona’s MFA program in creative writing, and Stanford Law School. Her practice is split between defending capital cases and representing humanitarian volunteers and protestors who are charged with crimes for their work. 

2021     Timeline of Border Wall Activity     John Kurc
This collection of short youtube videos shows a progression of what has happened along the border.

2021     
Stop the Wall     3 minutes     Laiken Jordahl
This clip from Jordahl's tweets depicts the horrific destruction caused by border wall construction.

​2020     Border Nation     19 minutes     Jason Jaacks     

“In making Border Nation,” Jason writes, “I tried to balance this juxtaposition: Ofelia’s generations-deep connection to the [Tohono O'odham] land, and the rarely seen but omnipresent eyes monitoring our nation’s porous southern border.” ​

2020     2020 on track to be among the top three deadliest years for undocumented migrants crossing the Arizona-Mexico border
            3 minutes     KOLD News 13
The Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner said that despite restrictions of COVID-19 at the ports of entry and widespread border wall construction, more people are crossing this year in remote areas of the desert resulting in hundreds of deaths.

2020     "USA v Scott" and the Fight to Prove that Humanitarian Aid is Not a Crime     16 minutes     Murat Oztaskin 
This short documentary recounts Arizona humanitarian Scott Warren's arrest for one count of conspiracy to transport and two counts of harboring illegal aliens in January 2018. He was found not guilty in November 2019.


2019     What's Really Happening at the U.S.-Mexico Border     14 minutes     Erika Pinheiro
This TED Talk, by a U.S. immigration attorney, recounts stories of her clients, her own detention and the cruelty and contradictions in immigration policy, especially in regard to asylum.

2019     Why I Fight For Solidarity     13 minutes     Pia Klemp
This TEDX Talk by the German captain of a boat, owned by an NGO, tells us what is happening to the refugees attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to reach European Union countries.

2019     Immigration Basics     53 minutes     Alyson Ball
This overview, by a GVS Samaritan, presents the past history of US immigration, types of immigration, their statuses in reference to possible citizenship and current policies and practices. 

2018     Arizona Illustrated Episode 509     10 minutes     Arizona Public Media
This episode features Alvaro Enciso, an artist, who talks about his life and his life's mission. He honors those who sought a better life and died in our Sonoran Desert.

2017     More Than Nice     3 minutes        Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki   
This piece visually captures Lubezki's personal interpretation of the difference between nice and kind through the eyes of volunteers from No More Deaths who leave jugs of water in the Sonoran Desert.

2015     Immigrants For Sale     33 minutes      Brave New Films          
This documentary examines the for-profit prison industry and its connection to migrants and their families, focusing on the insidious  dynamic at the nexus of politics and profit.
 
2014     The Real Death Valley     42 minutes     The Weather Channel
This documentary reveals the little-known story of hundreds of migrants who have died in the sweltering Texas brush over the past five years.

2009     Which Way Home     90 minutes     Netflix, Hulu or trailer is visible through the title link
This feature film follows unaccompanied child migrants from Central America, on their journey through Mexico, as they try to reach the United States.
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