How Do I Report A Missing Person Suspected Of Falling Victim To Dangers Along The Border?
What is the Border Safety Initiative? What is the Primary Mission of the Border Safety Initiative? What Can I Do to Locate a Missing Person? What Happens When I Call and Report Someone Missing? What is the Border Safety Initiative? The Border Safety Initiative (BSI) is an aggressive effort to reduce injuries and deaths along the southwest border. In June, 1998, then INS Commissioner Doris Meissner and Mexican Ambassador Jesus Reyes-Heroles publicly announced the Border Safety Initiative. The initiative is designed to increase public awareness of the dangers of crossing the border illegally, particularly in the hands of unscrupulous smugglers. Extremes in temperature can result in dehydration and heat exhaustion or hypothermia. In the summer, the heat is so intense that it can leave a person dehydrated and disoriented in a matter of hours. Winter in the mountains brings driving rain, crippling snow and brutal cold. The canals and rivers along the border appear deceptively calm, but the
