EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Day of the Dead is a Mexican tradition – often observed in U.S. Latino communities – of remembering and honoring deceased loved ones.
It involves prayer, setting up a small altar with candles and pictures of the departed, or visiting their graves at cemeteries. This weekend, one community group in El Paso is asking border residents to save a prayer for migrants who died on the way to the United States and to speak up against immigration policies it alleges force them to turn to unscrupulous smugglers.
300,000 expected at Tijuana cemeteries for Día de los Muertos; CBP has warning for travelers
“The (U.S.-Mexico) border for a long time has been a place with deterrence policies that are fueling the death of people,” said Alan Lizarraga, a spokesman for Border Network for Human Rights…