The U.S. has built walls, increased surveillance, even taking babies from their mothers at the border in order to deter crossings. None of it has worked. It doesn’t stop people from making the journey — it just makes people take riskier routes. And riskier routes can mean death.
-
-
Show this thread
-
We mapped out the location of Eliseo Cárdenas Zetina’s remains in Arizona. It’s treacherous terrain but he was three miles away from a highway. Ten years later, some of what remains are scattered bones, a shoe, and a laminated ID that, hidden in a cave, survived the wind and sun.pic.twitter.com/H77sUgjEGc
Show this thread -
The volunteers who scour the desert to find the remains of people who’ve disappeared? They’re mostly immigrants; some are formerly undocumented. The old truck they use doesn’t even always work. The fundraiser they started three months ago only raised $1600https://www.gofundme.com/armadillos-busqueda-y-rescate1 …
Show this thread -
The remains were found in March. Mexican authorities inexplicably took 3 months to get a DNA sample to the U.S. The Texas lab that establishes matches is backed up. The Cárdenas family waited 10 years since he went missing. If they’re lucky, they’ll get remains back by December.pic.twitter.com/s16qI4UykJ
Show this thread -
One more thing: These kinds of stories are difficult to illustrate. We didn’t want to only post gruesome images of a skulls and bones. Thank you,
@ghongsdusit, for thoughtfully working through countless renditions of images, photographs, and maps we used to tell this story.Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
And yet he appears to have tragically died 10 years ago. Who was president then again?
-
George W. Bush.
-
Exactly. So
#trumpeffect really doesn't apply here, does it?
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
“The entire border is a carpet of human remains,” every one of them has a story and a family and we should always remember that.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
@Radiolab did an excellent 3-part piece on this, highly recommend.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Thank you for bringing this important story to our attention.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Just painful
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Great piece as per usual . Thanks.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Just awful.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Sad. As long as the left continues to focus the discussion on amnesty vs increasing the legal paths to citizenship, this will continue.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.