Texas county at center of border fight is overwhelmed by migrant deaths ( web.archive.org )

A Washington Post report centered in Maverick County, Texas (the location of Eagle Pass) shows the inhumanity of the situation around the disposal of the bodies of migrants who die in their attempt to cross the southern border. We learn about a Syrian war refugee, a mother who gave birth on the bank of the river only to have her child die, and another mother whose family took out a loan to send her out of conditions of desperate poverty only to receive word of her death.

These are only a fraction of the stories included in the report, and those in the report are a vastly smaller fraction of the human stories that could be included. The government workers who deal with the bodies are becoming overwhelmed and traumatized, and the systems in which they work are overburdened with no relief in sight.

These tragic deaths are preventable. This situation can change, and it must.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)