“The entire border is a carpet of human remains.” For the last couple of years, I’ve been reaching out to people who use Facebook to track down loved ones who disappeared crossing the desert. Most don’t want to talk to a reporter. This case was different.https://www.revealnews.org/article/lost-on-the-border-a-decade-later-a-man-finds-his-fathers-remains-on-facebook/ …
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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
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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 …
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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
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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
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