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A documentary film about the South Texas border that chronicled migrants missing and dead will be touring several cities in Texas.

This week in history from the pages of the Reporter-Herald.

SMCISD San Marcos High School students received a presentation highlighting the field of forensic anthropology and the work and studying done at Texas State.SMHS forensic science students were welcome[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

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.

Amid a relentless heat wave, some migrants are succumbing to heat exhaustion. More than 500 people have died of various causes this year while trying to cross from Mexico.

Q24N (DW)It has been six months and eight days since Jose Anton went missing. The last time his family spoke with him was August 2022, just before he attempted to cross the US-Mexico border. Witnesses said the 27-year-old tried to enter US territory through the Mexican border city of Reynosa. He wasn't carrying his Venezuelan…

Thousands of undocumented migrants cross the US-Mexico border every day, but many get lost in the vast Texas ranchlands and perish. Several NGOs are helping to look for them, trying to give families a sense of closure.

In Maverick County, 26 bodies pulled from the Rio Grande were buried, some without attempts to identify them. Teams of Texas State students are trying to learn their names so their families can be notified.

In a border graveyard, volunteers exhume migrants’ bodies and search for their families