Effort to ID immigrants’ corpses is gratifying — and sad
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Hundreds of bodies are found along the U.S.-Mexico border. Relatives are grateful for forensic anthropologist Lori Baker’s work to identify them, for bones to bury and graves to visit.
A new toothbrush and a bent cattle fence along Highway 281 near Falfurrias, Texas, where smugglers drop off groups of people about a mile south of a Border Patrol checkpoint. Ranchers have all but given up repairing fences. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)