‘People with no names’: the drowned migrants buried in pauper’s graves

As deaths in Rio Grande increase, Piedras Negras has buried unidentifiable bodies removed from water by first responders

Most graves in the large municipal cemetery on the outskirts of the Mexican border town of Piedras Negras are well-tended by loved ones and the place has an elegance and peace about it, as a place of rest.

Tombs feature headstones or metal crosses, bearing pictures of Jesus and the Virgin of Guadalupe, and many are decorated with bursts of color from vivid pink, orange and blue artificial flowers (that don’t wither in the summer’s brutal heat).

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