During the month of July, seven missing migrant persons were identified within the framework of the Border Project (Proyecto Frontera), coordinated by the EAAF in Central and North America.
Five of the identified migrants were men and two were women, aged between 24 and 42 years old. Six of those identified were from El Salvador and one from Mexico, from the state of Chiapas.
The disappearances occurred between 2004 and 2024. The remains were recovered between 2007 and 2024 in states along the southern border of the United States: four in Texas, two in New Mexico, and one in Arizona.
The Border Project is an initiative aimed at contributing to the creation of a transnational and regional system for the forensic search for missing migrants along the Central and North American migratory corridor. To achieve this, the EAAF coordinates this project in partnership with more than 100 governmental and non-governmental organizations from countries along this corridor. To date, more than 490 migrants have been identified, and the Border Project forensic database contains information on more than 2,500 missing migrant cases originating from 12 countries.
Photo: Monserrat Nájera González, EAAF anthropologist, interviews family members of a missing person in Honduras.