For Star subscribers: Searchers are trying to help more families learn what happened to missing loved ones. But laws restrict their access to wilderness areas that are now "open graveyards."
Since the 1990s, thousands of migrants have tried to enter the U.S. by crossing the borders of Arizona and Texas, and many have died in the desert. Yet there is no unified DNA program to identify the remains of missing migrants. So who identifies them and how do they do it?
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More than 113,000 people are missing in Mexico, data show. And the work of locating, identifying and laying those people to rest often falls to family.
More than 113,000 people are missing in Mexico, data show. And the work of locating, identifying and laying those people to rest often falls to family.