Town mourns migrant John Does from Mexico – Holtville, California
Tagged: border, Day of the Dead, Mexico“Mourners prayed and placed marigolds in the cemetery of this California farming town on Wednesday in a Day of the Dead ritual honoring hundreds who died while illegally crossing the border from Mexico.
Some 400 John and Jane Does who died of heat exhaustion, drowned or perished of unknown causes as they trekked north to California from Mexico since the late 1990s are buried in the churned mud of the paupers’ cemetery in Holtville, a few miles (kilometers) north of the border.”
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November 2nd, 2006
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