Mass migrant graves unearthed in Texas.

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**remilia_scarlet**

This is really sad and disturbing.
http://m.aljazeera.com/story/2014622135759344842

Mass migrant graves unearthed in Texas
Last updated: 5 hours ago
Researchers discover mass graves near US-Mexico border containing bodies of unidentified migrants in body bags.

Mass graves have been unearthed in a south Texas cemetery, most probably containing the bodies of immigrants who died crossing into the US illegally, reports say.

The documents published on Saturday highlight the discovery at Sacred Heart Burial Park in Falfurrias which come as part of a multi-year effort to identify immigrants who have died near the US-Mexico border.

The remote area is often deadly for immigrants from Mexico and Central America who set out on foot amid sweltering temperatures to avoid the nearby US Border Patrol checkpoint.

Anthropologists Lori Baker and Krista Latham and their students exhumed remains stuffed inside trash bags, shopping bags and body bags, according to the Corpus Christi Caller Times.

In one burial, bones of three bodies were inside one body bag. In another, at least five people in body bags and smaller plastic bags were piled on top of each other.

Skulls also were found in biohazard bags placed between coffins.

Latham, a forensic anthropologist at the University of Indianapolis, called the discovery appalling.

Bodies that were not already skeletonized before burial were found in varying states of decomposition, Baker said.

"To me it's just as shocking as the mass grave that you would picture in your head, and it's just as disrespectful," Latham told the Caller Times.

They exhumed 110 unidentified people from the cemetery in 2013.

This summer, researchers have performed 52 exhumations, but because some remains were stored together, further study will be needed to determine exactly how many bodies have actually been recovered, Baker said.

Researchers have said that some remains were found under small, temporary grave markers bearing the name of local funeral home Funeraria del Angel Howard-Williams.

County officials said they pay the funeral home to handle bodies recovered in remote parts of South Texas.

More than 300 people died crossing through Brooks County alone between 2011 and 2013 - representing more than 50 percent of the deaths in Texas' sprawling Rio Grande Valley.

**thenoobbomb**

Disgusting.

**Frazzled**

They were probably paid by the body-indivdual simple coffins etc. and basically defrauded the tax[payers. The amount of this stuff occurring is shocking. Just google it if you dare.

**Jihadin**

If we actually try to seal the border

**hotsauceman1**

Ok, I am legitimitly confused. Who put them in the graves? Or likely. The article sounds like it was heir family members?

**Frazzled**

hotsauceman1 wrote:
Ok, I am legitimitly confused. Who put them in the graves? Or likely. The article sounds like it was heir family members?

Article is badly written. Looks like funeral home was hired to bury itinerants. INstead of performing proper burials, they did what the article noted.

**Jihadin**

hotsauceman1 wrote:
Ok, I am legitimitly confused. Who put them in the graves? Or likely. The article sounds like it was heir family members?

The others that made it I believe. Cemetery is consecrated grounds so I can see the "why there"

**remilia_scarlet**

It makes me sad. I wish these people knew how dangerous it is to come here. I heard a story where a woman crossed the border with her 5 month old baby.

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Frazzled wrote:
hotsauceman1 wrote:
Ok, I am legitimitly confused. Who put them in the graves? Or likely. The article sounds like it was heir family members?

Article is badly written. Looks like funeral home was hired to bury itinerants. INstead of performing proper burials, they did what the article noted.

Al jazera isn't known for their good writing, I apologize.

**Daemonhammer**

Frankly it could be worse. When I read the title I expected to find some sort of a story about illegal immigrants being killed and then dumped in mass graves.

**Frazzled**

Agreed.

**Ouze**

It's rare you can read a story and go, "oh, thank goodness, it was just horrible corruption".

**whembly**

Ouze wrote:
It's rare you can read a story and go, "oh, thank goodness, it was just horrible corruption".

Yeah... no kidding. o.O

**Jihadin**

The remote area is often deadly for immigrants from Mexico and Central America who set out on foot amid sweltering temperatures to avoid the nearby US Border Patrol checkpoint.

Clearly we see who is at fault here

**Daemonhammer**

Jihadin wrote:
The remote area is often deadly for immigrants from Mexico and Central America who set out on foot amid sweltering temperatures to avoid the nearby US Border Patrol checkpoint.

Clearly we see who is at fault here

Damn US border patrols, they got those poor people killed.