Students work to identify immigrants in Texas cemeteries

FALFURRIAS, Texas (AP) — A humanitarian effort to find, exhume and identify migrants who died on U.S. soil continues with no real end in sight.

The Corpus Christi Caller-Times reports a volunteer team of forensic anthropology students and faculty from Texas State University in San Marcos and the University of Indianapolis this month launched the fourth collaborative exhumation project at Sacred Heart Burial Park in Falfurrias since 2013.

They’re referred to as the “longterm dead.”