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FRIDAY, JANUARY 27TH 4:00PM HANDSHAKE Genre: Narrative Feature Length: 112 minutes Country: United States Director: Robert Shupe After a chance encounter

In Maverick County, 26 bodies pulled from the Rio Grande were buried. Teams of Texas State students are trying to learn their names so their families can be notified.

Teams of Texas State students are trying to learn the names of bodies pulled from the Rio Grande so their families can be notified.

For years, the bodies of at least 15 individuals have remained buried in Brownsville without a known name or family link. Their DNA samples are not on file, according to a university forensic science group. That group wants to exhume the bodies and extract DNA, but until now they’re hitting a legal roadblock.

Operation Identification began in 2013 to address what Texas State University calls a "mass disaster of unidentified deaths."

As of October, 81 migrants have died while trying to cross the border into Brooks County.

Identifying victims may be a complicated process because multiple countries are involved and families of migrants may not come forward.

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...

Every year, hundreds of Central and South American migrants risk their lives in pursuit of entry into the U.S. for a better life. Crossing often means trying to survive punishing

Is a permanent solution coming at last for Salvadoran immigrants and others with temporary work permits? Bipartisan breakthroughs on immigration measures provide some optimism. Dalila Sandoval poses in front of her home holding a photo of her and her two U.S.-born children in Arlington on Wednesday, December 23, 2020. Sandoval has been in immigration limbo for nearly two decades as a Tepesiana, as she calls herself, an immigrant who holds a temporary protected status in the U.S.. The 52-year-ol...