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First aid for migrants deported from US into Mexico

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Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats wounds on the neck of Alma Maldonado, a Mexican migrant who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where she sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Maldonado, from Veracruz, Mexico, was injured while walking at night through the desert. In the darkness she walked into a barbed wire fence, cutting her face and arms. It also caused her to fall and injure her arm and one foot. Unable to move very fast, she and her husband were apprehended the next day by the Border Patrol. Gustafson is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek.

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Caring for migrants at Nogales
Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats wounds on the neck of Alma Maldonado, a Mexican migrant who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where she sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Maldonado, from Veracruz, Mexico, was injured while walking at night through the desert. In the darkness she walked into a barbed wire fence, cutting her face and arms. It also caused her to fall and injure her arm and one foot. Unable to move very fast, she and her husband were apprehended the next day by the Border Patrol. Gustafson is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek.