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U.S. Border Patrol<\/span> agents raided a humanitarian aid station in the Arizona desert late last month, taking three people into custody and breaking into a trailer without a warrant. <\/p>\n Video taken by No More Deaths, a faith-based aid group out of Tucson that operates the site, shows agents with flashlights prying open a trailer door and entering the structure. The camp, located just miles from the U.S.\u2013Mexico border, has long been used to provide medical care to migrants crossing one of the world\u2019s deadliest stretches of desert.<\/p>\n Monica Ruiz House, a No More Deaths volunteer who\u2019d recently been involved in deportation defense work in Chicago, said the warrantless raid spoke to a rising culture of lawlessness among the Trump administration\u2019s front-line immigration enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s this frightening pattern of impunity that\u2019s happening across the country,\u201d Ruiz House told The Intercept, \u201cwhether it\u2019s Border Patrol, whether it\u2019s ICE agents,\u201d referring to U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n The November raid marks the third time in recent years that Border Patrol agents acting under the authority of President Donald Trump have targeted the remote Arizona site, and the first case in which the agency has entered a structure at the location without a warrant.<\/p>\n According to volunteers, Border Patrol agents claimed they were in \u201chot pursuit\u201d when they broke into the group\u2019s trailer. Hot pursuit has a particular legal meaning and typically applies in cases where law enforcement attempts to make an arrest, a subject flees into a private space, the opportunity to obtain a warrant is not available, and the risk of further of escape, destruction of evidence, or harm to others is high. <\/p>\n Amy Knight, an attorney who has represented No More Deaths volunteers in the past and is currently providing informal legal advice to the group, said there is no evidence that any of those factors were present in the November raid. <\/p>\n By all appearances, Border Patrol tracked a group of people to an aid camp but made no attempt to arrest them en route. \u201cThey were inside of a building on private property, and the agents were able to pretty well surround the place \u2014 so if they left, they could catch them,\u201d Knight told The Intercept. \u201cThere was no reason why they couldn\u2019t get a warrant.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A handful of Border Patrol vehicles amassed at around 4:30 p.m. on the afternoon of November 23 at the organization\u2019s gate near the unincorporated community of Arivaca, according to a summary of events produced by No More Deaths in the immediate aftermath of the raid.<\/p>\n \u201cUnited States Border Patrol,\u201d said a voice on a loudspeaker, according to the summary, which was shared with The Intercept. \u201cCome out.\u201d<\/p>\n Volunteers who approached the gate were informed agents had tracked a group of suspected migrants to the location and requested access to make arrests. <\/p>\n Three people were on the property receiving medical care at the time, Ruiz House said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\u201cDisappeared\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n