The Hill News

The Border Patrol deported José Miguel to Nogales, Sonora, México wearing a back brace and in extreme pain. The pain only got worse once he finished the handful of pain pills the Border Patrol medic had given him.

José Miguel and his American family had made Los Angeles home for 35 years. The Border Patrol had picked him up in the desert, as he was returning from visiting his sick mother in Sinaloa. They loaded him into a patrol truck and sped down the dirt road at high speed. The truck left the road and rolled, injuring José Miguel’s back. When he refused to sign voluntary deportation papers, agents yelled at him, withheld food and water from him for 24 hours and promised him pain medication and medical care if he signed. Finally, he did.  Shortly after he arrived in Nogales he died. A volunteer with the humanitarian aid group No More Deaths called one of his daughters to ask if there was anything that he could do. The daughter replied, “We do not kn! ow where our father is buried.”

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