A life or death journey into the US from Mexico

August 27, 2015

Migrants are risking their lives trying to cross into Texas through a strip of land known as the Valley of Death

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A life or death journey into the US from Mexico

The public cemetery in Brooks County, Texas, is the site of mass graves of unidentified migrants. The county acknowledges some 300 bodies have been buried there over the last six years, without being identified. But a group of students from Baylor University volunteered to exhume bodies and try to ID them through DNA testing.


 

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