Small Town in Texas Becomes the Tomb of the Unknown Immigrant Jared Taylor - Reuters
go to original May 19, 2013

The unidentified grave of a person whose remains were found in the desert is seen in Falfurrias, Texas. (Reuters/Eric Thayer)

FALFURRIAS, Texas  - Mounds of dirt decorated with fake flowers sit at the northern edge of the cemetery in this town about 80 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Small metal placards mark the graves of the unknown, generally by gender, while others simply say “bones” or “skull case.”

It is here that more than 50 unidentified immigrants were buried after dying in heat and punishing terrain while they tried to seek new lives in the United States. As legislators in Washington debate bipartisan proposals for an immigration overhaul, Texas officials say this small town, the seat of Brooks County and part of the U.S. Border Patrol region known as the Rio Grande Valley sector, is emerging as an epicenter of death and misery.

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