Anonymous graves mark the end of the line for migrants at US border
By AFP
PUBLISHED: 21:39 EDT, 27 October 2022 | UPDATED: 21:39 EDT, 27 October 2022
Sheriff Urbino Martinez has collected the remains of so many dead migrants who have come across the US southern border that he is known as "The Undertaker."
"It's deadly out there," says Martinez, who patrols the small Texan county of Brooks, a few dozen kilometers (miles) from Mexico.
"We started keeping track of the dead bodies from 2009," he told AFP in his office, pointing to 20 thick volumes, where his department has information on 913 cases.
But, he says, that's only a fraction of the true human toll of the border crossings.
"I would multiply that times five, maybe even 10 for those bodies that will never be recovered."
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