O’Keefe rescues undercover illegal who infiltrated ‘No Mas Muertes’ humanitarian aid camp in Arizona near border.
Journalist James O’Keefe’s O’Keefe Media Group had to extract an illegal alien working incognito with his organization after an investigation into a nonprofit group suspected of human trafficking went south.
OMG’s undercover illegal infiltrated the non-profit No Mas Muertes (No More Deaths) camp in Aravaca, Arizona, but reportedly had guns pointed at him by individuals appearing to be Mexican-cartel members who asked him for $300 to be trafficked.
OMG reporters additionally posed as donors and land surveyors to record the group allegedly being involved in activities more akin to human trafficking than humanitarianism.
At one point, O’Keefe had to put on a bulletproof vest marked with the word “PRESS” to extract the undercover journalist in a standoff at the gate of the camp, after the reporter said he was being interrogated and feared for his life inside the camp.
BREAKING: @OKeefeMedia infiltrates secret NO MAS MUERTES, @NoMoreDeaths encampment in the middle of the desert in Aravaca, Arizona near the border. Posing as donors and land surveyors, and with the help of an illegal immigrant working undercover, OMG recordings show this… pic.twitter.com/ZDIBlpdKIG
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) February 14, 2024
OMG later discovered No Mas Muertes was a tax exempt 501(c)(3) ministry of the Universal Unitarian Church of Tucson, and appeared to be operating in secret, with staff going to great lengths to keep their identities and a $400K budget hidden.
O’Keefe concludes the non-profit group is not a genuine humanitarian group, and is instead one of many illicit groups exploiting the open border crisis by profiting off illegal immigrant smuggling.
Read O’Keefe’s breakdown of the harrowing incident, published in X post below:
BREAKING: @OKeefeMedia infiltrates secret NO MAS MUERTES, @NoMoreDeaths encampment in the middle of the desert in Aravaca, Arizona near the border. Posing as donors and land surveyors, and with the help of an illegal immigrant working undercover, OMG recordings show this nonprofit engaged in paranoia, hostility towards law enforcement and white people, recommendations to violate asylum law, and offers of for-profit services – actions related more to a human trafficking operation than a humanitarian nonprofit.
Hidden cameras show Mexican men from Sonora and Tijuana pointing guns at our undercover illegal immigrant, and requesting 300 dollars cash to traffic him to Phoenix. Stuck inside the camp, our undercover journalist was interrogated and feared for his life. James O’Keefe had to put on a bulletproof vest with the word PRESS on it, and extract the journalist in a standoff at the gate.
A “ministry” of the Universal Unitarian Church out of Tucson, @UUCTucson, and a 501c3 which does not file a public tax return, O’Keefe’s “surveyor” team recorded No More Deaths staff in the camp discuss their operations in detail including their budget (400K) and discovered the identity of staff – which they went to great lengths to keep SECRET. The staff said “We are paranoid” and called our team of surveyors “white supremacists…”
In the middle of the Arizona desert over 60 miles southwest of Tucson, O’Keefe Media Group (“OMG”) risked their lives to investigate the shady activity of No Mas Muertes, or No More Deaths, a nonprofit organization that claims to provide humanitarian aid to illegal immigrants but has been raided by US law enforcement and whose members have been arrested by border patrol numerous times. Posing as donors and land surveyors, and with the help of an illegal immigrant working undercover, OMG recordings show this nonprofit engaged in paranoia, hostility towards law enforcement and white people, recommendations to violate asylum law, and offers of for-profit services – actions related more to a human trafficking operation than a humanitarian nonprofit. OMG’s undercover illegal immigrant even detailed having guns pointed at him by men who resembled Mexican-cartel members.
The conduct of No More Deaths flies in the face of its obligations as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization to obey laws. Instead, it seems its real mission is to skirt immigration laws and traffic humans while weaponizing our empathy for illegal immigrants and perverting Christianity like this past Sunday’s Super Bowl “He Gets Us” campaign ad of Christians washing people’s feet. OMG’s exposé of secret illegal immigrant compounds funded by Catholic Community Services of Tucson coupled with this undercover footage of No More Deaths reveals the shocking proliferation of private tax-exempt nonprofit organizations working with the government or potentially dangerous cartels to engage in what amounts to human trafficking into the United States under the guise of humanitarian aid, without any scrutiny or accountability.
At a location harder to find than Area 51, off the outskirts of the tiny town of Arivaca 40 minutes on a dirt road from Interstate 15 at 36455 S Papalote Wash Road, several people wearing construction vests planted flags into the ground as land surveyors would before being approached by someone who told them to leave: “Hey guys, this is private property.” These people were not, in fact, surveyors. They were @JamesOKeefeIII and members of his OMG team, equipped with hidden cameras to investigate the rise in suspicious nonprofit organizations operating at the U.S.–Mexico border. The team was outside the secretive location of No Mas Muertes, or No More Deaths.
Couched as a ministry of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson, whose tag line is “a liberal light in the desert” and whose homepage is awash in support for LGBTQAI+ and political organization BLM, No More Deaths claims to advance faith-based principles for immigration reform. In reality, No More Deaths seems to use charitable activities to conceal human smuggling and its relationship to Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson to evade filing IRS documents of financial transparency (IRS Form 990) under an IRS exemption for religious organizations.
After confirming the location was No More Deaths property, an OMG team member posing as a donor called Mary Weiss, an administrator for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson. On the call, Weiss represented No More Deaths was an “organization we actually partner with,” as “a ministry of the church,” located in Arivaca with a staff of 4-5 employees and budget of $400 Thousand.
As the OMG team continued planting flags around the perimeter of the property, they sent a volunteer illegal immigrant – “Carlos” – with a hidden camera to observe No More Deaths from the inside. No More Deaths workers welcomed Carlos and explained how they “always have threats” at the camp on account of “bad people” and “the patrols” that pass by. They described wearing masks so they could not be identified or photographed “when the military shows up or when those white people show up.” The workers declared the men at the perimeter to be white supremacists “looking to cause trouble.” Apparently, government workers, law enforcement, and white people, made them “paranoid” – a very strange mental state for people working at a “humanitarian” nonprofit organization.
Upon the OMG team leaving the area, No More Deaths workers intercepted their car and questioned them. After O’Keefe mentioned the Unitarian Universalist Church and No More Deaths, the No More Deaths workers denied knowing either organization and never provided their names.
Back at the “humanitarian” camp, two men dressed in military garb like Mexican-cartel members interrogated Carlos. Where was he from? Where had he crossed the border? Who brought him? How much money had it taken for him to get there? Why hadn’t he applied for asylum? Did his watch have a camera in it? Ultimately, they offered to find someone to take Carlos to Phoenix…for $300. Carlos eventually reunited with the OMG team, but not before having guns frighteningly pointed at him at “humanitarian” No More Deaths camp.
That night in the desert raised more questions than it provided answers. Why is a humanitarian nonprofit adverse to border patrol (and white people)? Why does a humanitarian nonprofit have armed cartel-like men offering for-profit services? How does an organization which routinely violates the law keep its tax-exempt status? OMG’s investigation into No More Deaths reveals the growing abuse of nonprofit laws by organizations hiding under the cloak of religious affiliation to further the stated international agenda of open borders over that of national sovereignty while profiting off human trafficking. One thing is clear – men are armed, tensions are high, and fear and false faith organizations are running unfettered, making the border more dangerous than the Wild West was in the days of the Alamo.
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