The Kino Border Initiative (KBI) spoke with five migrants, removed to Nogales, who had been traveling with Carmelo Cruz-Marcos, a Mexican migrant who was shot to death by a Border Patrol agent on February 19:
Five members of the group traveling with the migrant who was murdered by Border Patrol on February 19th arrived at Kino earlier this month. They had all been held a month and a half in detention as witnesses to the crime. One of those in the group was a cousin of the victim, and was not informed for a week that his cousin had died.
When the group was expelled to Nogales, Sonora, Border Patrol did not return their identification or the money they had with them when they were detained.
— “March 31 Update from KBI” (Nogales: Kino Border Initiative, March 31, 2022).