Operation I.D. is a non-profit program, ran out of Texas State University, that works to identify migrants' bodies that are found along the U.S.- Mexico border. NBC News' Valerie Castro visits the non-profit to learn more about their mission.
Amerika Garcia Grewal is a lifelong resident of Eagle Pass, Texas, and a volunteer with Operation Identification, a project that works to identify the bodies of migrants discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border. The hope is to notify loved ones in their home countries and when possible, repatriate the remains. “The body keeps the score,” Grewal said, as she explained her work, which includes removing clothing “to look for any identifying marks,” including tattoos.
Operation ID helps to fill that gap by training civilian volunteers and other county officials like justices of the peace to do the forensic work. “If it would not have been for Operation ID, I think that we would have been placed into a position where we would have really been at a greater emergency,” Maverick County Judge Ramsey English Cantú said.
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