Jesuits join in ‘heartbreaking’ search for migrants’ remains in Arizona desert osvnews.com
About a dozen Jesuits from all over the world on a search and rescue mission in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert Dec. 20-22 came across eight areas that had remains of missing people.
The group, which included three lay volunteers, was in search of migrants who crossed the Mexico border into the United States.
Jaret Ornelas is a Jesuit seminarian and has been a regular volunteer for the past three and a half years with Battalion Search and Rescue, a humanitarian nongovernmental agency based in Ajo, Arizona. It’s one of various advocacy groups that do this kind of work, including Aguilas del Desierto and No More Deaths.
Ornelas, 35, said it is very rare to find anyone other than migrants in such remote outskirts of the state. With Battalion, he said, he has helped recover the remains of 30 (identified) people and found eight people alive.
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