Key Participants

Águilas del Desierto (Desert Eagles): Águilas del Desierto is a humanitarian Latinx search and rescue group that since 2012 has remained faithful to its mission

of searching for missing migrants in the Arizona, California, and Texas borderlands, and to bring some solace to families and communities in Mexico, Central America, and the United States.

Key Issues

Águilas is a documentary meant to reach out to a wide audience and is particularly useful to people interested in the following topics:

• Migrant death
• Migration
• U.S.-Mexico Border
• Child Migration (Children in Migration or Mobility)
• Latinx Communities
• Social and Racial Justice
• Activism in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
• Empathy and Solidarity
• Agency
• Socially-Engaged Filmmaking