The Last Thing They Carried

 

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[from The Observers]

The site shows stark images of objects found with bodies of unidentified migrants—a pair of jeans, a running shoe, a teddy bear, a prayer card—in the hope that surviving family members will come forward to identify them.

The US Border Patrol estimates that more than 6,000 people died in the vast US-Mexico border region between 2000 and 2015.

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