US War on Asylum-Seekers Has Led to Mass Grave in Mexico

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US War on Asylum-Seekers Has Led to Mass Grave in Mexico
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There is much to fear in a world where the U.S. is allowed to violate international borders at will while fueling a ludicrously lucrative 'border security' industry that effectively sentences poor people to death.

Some of the newer graves still host the remains of the Day of the Dead celebration in November—death being far more, well,than in most other places on the planet. The country becomes awash in the cempasúchil flower—or Mexican marigold—and mariachis descend upon cemeteries for all-night festivities with music, food, and libations.

Off I went through the kaleidoscope of colors, apologizing all the while to the souls I was trampling and noting the occasional gravesite bearing a Chinese name—a testament to an earlier era of migration. I descended the slope as instructed to reach the corner of the cemetery, where I found dirt, grass, some scattered wooden crosses, and assorted rubbish—a far and desolate cry from the comparatively animated landscape above.

in Tapachula in Siglo XXI, which means "21st century" and is Mexico's largest immigration detention center. Inside this jail-within-a-jail-city, I spoke with numerous women who, having fled U.S.-inflicted political and economic calamity in their home countries, had arrived at the final stretch of their northbound journey only to find themselves categorically criminalized.

I had returned to Tapachula a year and a half after the Siglo XXI ordeal to see how the 21st-century jail-city was holding up, and the cemetery visit was at the top of my to-do list. I was still unsure, however, whether I had actually seen the mass grave—such being the nature of mass graves, I suppose. Ascending the slope once more, I picked my way across more souls until I found two workers refurbishing a blue-colored tomb.

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