Home Talk Free Talk Life … This topic has [2] replies, 0 voices, and was last updated 4 years ago by AAA. Now Editing “Life …” Name * Password * Email Topic Title (Maximum Length 80) As the number of migrants crossing the border with Mexico has surged this year, with encounters reaching levels not seen in more than two decades, so, too, has the number of bodies found by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Through July, Border Patrol officials found 383 dead migrants, the highest toll in nearly a decade, and one already far surpassing the 253 recovered in the previous fiscal year. As the sheriff explained, there are many ways to die in the desert. In one case in late July, he got a call around 3 in the morning. A migrant from Ecuador had been killed by an eighteen-wheeler when she tried to cross Interstate 10 near the county seat of Van Horn. Only teeth and a few body parts were recovered, he said, reviewing photos of the gruesome crash. “No quedó mas nada,” he added. Nothing else was left. In another grim case, Carrillo was called to the site of an empty water tank on a cattle ranch, where he found a migrant who had hanged himself on a mesquite tree. “He made it all this way only to find the tank empty,” the sheriff said. “What would have been going on in his mind at that point?” I agree to the terms of service Update List
