The deadliest trip in America? Desperate search after immigrants die in desert

El Progreso, Honduras (CNN) - While holding her granddaughter in her arms crying Corina Montoya .
Angie will soon turn 2 . His father, El Progreso, Honduras when he was only 18 days of leave them at home . Hector Rivas She and her newborn baby in a taxi , sending money home buying dreams of a better life in the United States in 2012 under the leadership did not listen then. Here , he worked for as little as $ 304 per month for a business of cooking oil acquired.
Family Cell Phone Rivas ' gave his work flow .
"I asked a thousand times ," said Montoya . "It ' rang and rang , and then there was a message of service out of it. "
Now his family is one of thousands of migrants who have already died , he feared the dangerous journey north . Grown more dangerous as it increases the safety of the U.S. border with Mexico , but that does not stop taking risks Rivas and others like him .
' Few are ready for a tour so hard '
Rivas is no way the United States could not accept - the dangerous crossing through the Arizona desert, is distinguished for its cruelty.
Rivas looking for signs of where he was, it does not stop the possibility of his family.
" We've all been in vain ... Newspapers, morgues , prisons, courts ... and going nowhere ," said Montoya .
At least 350 people from El Progreso Cofamicro , volunteers are trying to help families find their relatives , according to a Honduran organization , the United States has gone on a trek in the Central American country.
First , this was all the family could not wait and wonder. But now they have another option.
Today, much of El Progreso is why a large gatherings of community within the class.
Women love to answer a series of questions from investigators Montoya , sit at tables around the room. Then they put their hands on.
Technicians with needles prick the finger and then press in a piece of paper.
Where is my child : Montoya , the left behind the plots of blood in the small red circle for almost two years, was his last desperate way to ask a question ?
The first step '
One day , hopefully soon , Mercedes Doretti may have the answer .
For decades , some of the harshest environments in the most violent places in the world and has helped to lead a team of investigators. Their mission: to violent crimes or who are victims of trafficking in human beings to solve the mystery of a missing man .
His organization in Brooklyn, New York -based, Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team ( EAAF ) , during the brutal military dictatorship in Argentina from 1976 to 1983 starting out as a group dedicated to identifying the bodies of the dead rebels . They investigate the murder in Ciudad Juarez on how to deal with the death of a database will be created where the migrants - Over the years , they are in other countries, including Mexico , to expand their investigation.
- Many of them , without any identification of the Arizona desert , authorities say more than 2,000 migrants have died in the last 13 years is: Almost four years ago, have set their sights on another dangerous region .
Meanwhile, hundreds or even thousands of miles away , their family - as Montoya - are looking for answers .
Doretti and his team in hopes of finding a match and family to gather DNA from unidentified bodies , that is to come.
Family group in Mexico , El Salvador, Honduras , Costa Rica and Guatemala more than 1,700 DNA samples have been collected. So far , they have identified 65 bodies.
Sad Doretti It 's still a huge task . And they are able to find a match , even when it is a bittersweet victory .
"This is not a happy ending. , We just try to reduce the time that families can stretch their pain," he says. "It ' a huge challenge, and we are still just made the first step. "
' Disaster S '
Arizona is a cold, sterile , Pima County Chief Medical Examiner Gregory Hess goes a step further .
Migrants remains have been found in the Arizona desert , Hess and his team of investigators determine what caused the death and try to identify the bodies , where those bodies , to bring them.
Almost every day, he says, is a new series of remains of bodies found in the desert. Whose characteristics and the physical properties of the bodies of the face are mostly intact. It is higher than in other bones . All the plastic body of the tag placed inside the bag and the cold air and the smell of rotting penetrate every time the door is opened , where a large temperature-controlled warehouse is stored in the .
It creates a file to systematically identify the documents or things in the future , trying to go over the bodies, but sometimes, they do not have a lot of clues .
Today, Hess has three skulls on the front of the table - the desert can be immigrants who have died, he said , remains.
It ' a call to a poster on the wall next to him , describing the problem of lack and unidentified person " silent mass disaster ."
This time , it's too early to say too much about whose remains are on the table.
"There is no private property, how to identify the person who made the skull ? 's Hard ," he says . "The only way that is going to happen is through DNA . , But if you want to go into all the world can take the DNA , but they have nothing to compare it to , then you will not benefit from. "
The danger in the desert
Last year, the remains of 169 migrants have arrived here . Safety Authority on 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks has grown as an increase in the number of deaths in the desert. Reinforced border security , illegal immigration , the most remote and dangerous cross aimed at blocking immigrants from Mexico and Central America have been forced .
For immigrants, making it a dangerous journey to the other side of the border is only a part.
" The wild animals of the desert, you find that you run into hostile plants , will be lost ... so many things happen in the desert, " Alfonso de Alba, where officials Tucson , Arizona, Vice Consul of the Consulate of Mexico are often immigrants who died along the way involved in the process of trying to identify the remains .
Bandits or from traffic, robberies, rapes and beatings are at risk, said the embassy staff .
Most of the immigrants three-digit summer temperatures and icy cold winter results of death, Hess said . Only 1% of deaths due to violence.
Jeronimo Garcia , is the identity of immigrants is to find clues become a go-to person for the American authorities, an employee at the embassy warned of traveling to do.
" Do you have enough water (or food) , can not take it," he says. " I do not have to risk the lives of immigrants desert tell. Traffic , regardless of how much money they are paid, not to see them as people. "
But , immigrants continue to arrive , and the Pima County morgue unidentified remains in the list continues to grow.
Many of the immigrants , so no identity , and sometimes the only bone in their bodies that have been abandoned, Hess said .
Over the years , his office to collect DNA samples from the remains and try to match them to the United States federal database .
But since so many immigrants before the United States ever had before, authorities found a DNA match .
Office of the Pima County Medical Examiner and the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team has begun to work together to change the situation. The U.S. authorities are now Mexico and Central America migrant relatives of missing bodies in the DNA database can match them with DNA.
It is a complex process of international borders and state . EAAF team collected DNA from family members, data from data cell bodies found in the Arizona desert in a lab in Virginia, a DNA database , compared to .
" All the information is collected and stored to provide some closure to the family , I can not. " , Doretti said, " We are a regional system , trying to assemble "
Find a game
Back to El Progreso , a classroom community full of desperate families looking for answers .
It EAAF of mothers , fathers and brothers of migrants who wish to travel where the DNA sample interviews and Honduras and El Salvador , made a recent trip to one of the stops .
"The more samples taken , the greater the chance of finding a match, " Carmen Osorno , Doretti is a member of the team. Each interview lasted approximately two hours and includes admission to a long questionnaire .
Some family members hope that the authorities will undertake a broader investigation , photographs, letters and other evidence to offer.
Paula Ivette Martinez a hand to his brother , Henry , on the other hand carries a picture of you and wipes her tears .
"I'm here to help me find my missing brother and sister happy," he tells his interviewer.
Henry died on his way to Miami, says Paula . His sister, Ondina, he made his way to Chicago a few years ago , has disappeared.
"It 's very sad ," said Martinez . "My mother does not know what became of her dead children . "
A family does not get a response ; Others are still questions to be asked
For nearly a decade , Carmela Ayala Jose Noriega and their son, Luis Fernando wondered what had happened.
He said he had made ​​two years later to tell them , then left Honduras in 2001 to work in America. He sent money home near Mother's Day of that year, and was told to check in a month later.

It was the ' last ever heard from him.
Honduran Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other officials to find out the results of the call.
Then , years later, a possible clue : In 2011 , Pima County morgue in the Honduran newspaper published a list of unclaimed bodies linked to the name . Of which 17 were four Central American Aryan Brotherhood . The name of Noriega immediately jumped out : Luis Fernando .
But it was just Luis Fernando ? Noriega says she does not know where to turn next .
EAAF take DNA samples in September 2012 during a trip to Honduras , the parents of Luis Fernando , researchers have tried to find and tell their stories and ask for their help .
DNA from the parents of the team is back from the United States , and the Pima County Medical Examiner 's office than it does with the data. They found a match for Luis Fernando .
"They said they believed it was 100% of our children ," said Noriega .
Luis Fernando crossing the desert should not perish , parents have learned , but unbeknownst to them died in a car accident.
The ashes of Luis Fernando on October 2, 2013 , almost a year after the capital of Honduras , arrived at the airport in a wooden box . They were buried during Holy Week this year.
"Now I can die in peace ," said the mother.
But other parents are still looking for closure .
As he was being given his DNA to investigators, Corina Montoya phone still rings in his house and his son should be in line .
Or at least, that someone will call and tell him what had happened to him.




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