Forensic Border Coalition News Today

Migrant deaths are on the rise. One group is working to identify and repatriate the remains of migrants too often carelessly buried in the borderlands.

Hundreds of migrants have died in Brooks County, Texas, an area nicknamed 'the killing fields'

Operation Identification has grim task of examining migrant remains Federal law seen as first recognition of lives lost entering the U.S. Updated:  Tags:  Operation Identification has grim task of examining migrant remains SAN ANTONIO – Locating the graves of migrants who died entering the U.S. illegally is the starting point for the grim, often complex task undertaken by Operation Identification at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University. Dr. Kate Spradley, a professor o...