The remains are sometimes in garbage bags, cardboard boxes or milk crates. Sometimes there are three or four to a hole. Operation ID is working to identify these migrants, who died anonymously on the dangerous trek across the Texas-Mexico border. TPRNews
crisis where migrants risk death in order to enter the U.S. without legal authorization. What happens to the human remains of those who don’t make it? There is an effort to identify those bodies and reunite the remains with families.On a bright winter’s day, workers dig into two graves at the Sacred Heart Cemetery in Falfurrias. This is a dig to retrieve bodies of unidentified migrants who died in the Brooks County desert.
Some of those human remains are discovered and end up buried here at Sacred Heart Cemetery. But they are buried without ceremony. It’s more accurate to say these human remains were disposed of by throwing them, without much care, into holes in the ground. The migrants’ bodies are sometimes in garbage bags, cardboard boxes or milk crates. Sometimes there are two, three, or four individuals to a hole.
This is where almost everyone in Brooks County gets buried. It’s a focal point of the community. Most of the gravestones are festooned with decorations to mark the passing holidays. There’s an active Facebook page for the cemetery with lots of festive graveside photos. The placement of the burial plots also tells the history of local racial segregation.
“I'm glad they're finding out. I'm glad they're finding these bodies , especially the unidentified ones. I think if I had a son or daughter who was missing, I'd want to know. After this part, they hopefully will be identified,” she said.
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