Posted on 01/30/2006 3:49:10 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
MONTERREY, MEXICO
Families of undocumented Mexican migrants who disappear while sneaking into the United States have had nowhere to turn for information on the loved ones' fates.
Now, a new Mexican government program to help with their inquiries.
It's a computer database designed to help identify migrants who die crossing the border -- as well as find the living who lose touch with family once they are in the United States.
The new program links Mexico's Foreign Relations Department's 35 offices in Mexico and 45 consulates in the United States to an Internet database.
In the last decade, more than three-thousand undocumented migrants have died trying to sneak into the United States. Of those, at least a thousand remain unidentified, and Mexican officials say many are buried in pauper graves in cemeteries along the border.
Other migrants disappear into new lives, using false names and leaving behind relatives in Mexico who may not have phones or may be difficult to contact.
Worried that an illegal might not be sending money home?
"as well as find the living who lose touch with family once they are in the United States." .....Have they asked WESTERN UNION to cooperate?.....:>)
Great way to cover up their murders...blame it on the bosa nova...or L Norte
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I didn't know they were that tech-ly advanced.
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