According to what the researchers could piece together, the bodies all came from one source: the Sacred Heart Burial Park in Brooks County. The people in charge of burying these migrants worked for a funeral home named Funeraria del Angel Howard-Williams. The funeral home was paid by the county around $450 per body to bury migrants found dead while trying to cross the border. Rather than treat the men, women, and children with respect and care, Howard-Williams appears to have pocketed the money and dumped the bodies with as little work as possible. The funeral home has had a government contract to dispose of the bodies for the past 16 years. In a grisly irony, many of the bodies were found in plastic bags emblazoned with the word “dignity” on them – a brand Sacred Heart actively promotes. Of course, Howard-Williams denies that they had done anything disrespectful. They refused to talk with investigators
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 23:11:24 +0000
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