Bringing up the Bodies | Caroline Tracey
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.
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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.
Profoundly unequal relations between the U.S. and the home countries of most undocumented migrants add to the danger.
The June 2022 deaths of 53 people, victims of heat stroke, in the back of a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, show the dangers of crossing the U.S. southern border without authorization.
U.S.-Mexico border policing has radically changed.
A 1994 US policy was supposed to deter migration by securing popular access points. Instead, it drives people to enter the US by more hazardous means, such as being crammed in hot tractor-trailers.