'Where Do We Put the Bodies?' Migration's human toll overwhelms a border county in Texas

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2024/texas-border-eagle-pass-migrant-deaths/

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https://archive.li/XBJNp

EAGLE PASS, Tex. — The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck.

The woman had been fished out of the Rio Grande minutes earlier. Now, her body lay stiff as mortician Jesus “Chuy” Gonzalez drove away from the muddy boat ramp and toward an overcrowded freezer, passing mobile homes and a casino along the way.

Maverick County purchased the trailer during the pandemic to handle covid-19 victims. It was designed to hold 20 bodies but on this day held 28 — the putrefied remains testifying to two dozen shattered dreams of reaching the United States. Only half had names.

Gonzalez didn’t flinch as he swung the freezer’s doors open. He has been around so much death that the stench of decomposition no longer bothers him. A large silver Virgen de Guadalupe dangled from his chest as he maneuvered the woman into a wooden barrack.

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[Jilly_in_VA]

1. Typical

AbBUTT grandstands and leaves everyone else to pick up the pieces.

[coprolite]

2. Are these officials the same ones that ran Trumps Separate the kids from parents program

Much to their surprise, researchers found Dahhan’s passport when they exhumed his remains. Despite having identification on him, officials had not used it to try to confirm his name. Don White, a law enforcement officer on the dig, took a DNA sample from the father in hopes of confirming the identity of his son. That same day he told them what they had suspected: The man inside the grave was indeed Dahhan.

It's appalling the officials didn't even bother to followup on identification or collect DNA sample from the dead before buring them. Overwhelmed with bodies and they didn't care.