Stashed in lockers in the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office are dozens of clues. Robin Reineke has found belt buckles, wedding rings, cellphones, and pictures of children. Each could help identify the remains of a migrant who died crossing the U.S.-Mexican border.
Reineke is executive director of the Colibri Center for Human Rights, a nonprofit in Tucson, Ariz., that works with the medical examiner’s office to unite unidentified remains of migrants with family members.
More than 7,000 men, women, and children have died crossing the border in the past 20 years, and identifying the deceased and contacting loved ones is complicated. Founded in 2013, Colibri started by taking missing-persons reports by phone and email.
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