Body Dilemmas on the Border

Illegal immigrant’s bodies are turning up on the edge of the Rio Grande, and the vast remote ranches of Texas and Mexican border. That’s what’s happening in our Southern border these days, and goes back a couple of decades too. The body count is a little over 350 for the fiscal year. And the folks that are doing something about the bodies have no ties to these people. So why do they do it? Because regardless of what a lot of people think about the illegal immigrant in general, they are still human beings just like us. I’m surprised that the border counties are even doing something about it. It’s not their responsibility to pick up the bodies ID them and burry them after they are done with the autopsy. “We do it out of respect” says Dr. Corinne Stern, the Webb county medical examiner. The citizen’s tax money is being spent on identifying the bodies for family members, and then to burying them when the families cant ID them. So who helps the folks on these border towns when they have no more money and room to keep the bodies? Is it the State or the Federal Government? What about the Mexican Government? The majority are Mexican citizens. The Mexican consulates try their best to help the families ID the bodies, but even with that little help and some DNA technology from a couple of Universities, some of these counties are being stretched thin on funds. The Mexican Gov should do its part on creating jobs and making better living conditions for its citizens. As for the US Gov they should apply a little pressure to the Mexican Gov so they can take responsibility for their citizens that die across the border. How can the Mexican Gov not care about its citizens, it almost seems like they want them to come over here and die. A couple of years ago during the Fox presidency the government was giving its people pamphlets on how to successfully cross the border to the US. Great help the Gov was encourage them to leave their native country, instead of helping them with jobs so they wouldn’t be compelled to cross over. I agree with Dr. Stern, it is a dilemma. I mean we can’t just leave the bodies to rot out there, or should we?

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