Operation Identification Examines Migrant Graves Outside Brownsville
By Preethi Mangadu Web Content Contributor On April 1, 2022, Texas State University’s Operation Identification (OpID) located unmarked graves in Guillen Community Cemetery using geophysical equipment. Due to the lack of county resources and high volume of death, many counties would bury undocumented migrant individuals without documenting the location of burial, collecting DNA samples, or proper analyses. To combat this, OpID was founded by Dr. Kate Spradley in 2013 “to […]
