5:51 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration · Comments Off
28 Feb 2006
They came in search of a better life for themselves and their families. They came with dreams of jobs and being able to send something back to those they left behind. Since 1993 at least 1,000 of them have ended up in unmarked graves along the U.S.-Mexican border. They are those “illegals” you hear Lou Dobbs screaming about everyday on his television program. According to Katarina Rodríguez of Human Rights Coalition/Indigenous Alliance without Borders:
The situation is getting steadily worse, every year there are more dead migrants, and they are very difficult to identify, as sometimes only their bones are found.
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