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Inventoried Collection: San Marcos and Case

inventoried collection: Case 0519 carried Psalms and Revelations, torn from a Spanish Bible, according to Hamilton Spectator. Case 0377 kept a single grain of rice inside a hollow cross. Case 0469 was found with a bracelet, a simple green ribbon tied in a knot. One side of the grain read Sara, and the other read Rigo. All 212 were unauthorized immigrants who died in Texas trying to evade Border Patrol checkpoints by walking across the rugged terrain. The belongings are part of a border-crossers' morgue at a Texas State University lab in San Marcos an inventoried collection of more than 2,000 objects and 212 bodies, the vast majority unidentified. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.