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Jason De León

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Jason De León is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and the director of the Undocumented Migration Project. He is the author of The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail. Follow him on Twitter @Jason_p_deleon.

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    sonoran desert - This human tooth, possibly belonging to a migrant, was found in 2011 in the Tumacácori Mountains, located south of Tucson, Arizona, near the U.S.-Mexico border.

    Notes From a Crime Scene

    A 2015 book offers an intimate account of undocumented migrants’ life-and-death struggles in the unforgiving desert of the U.S.-Mexico border.

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    A View From the Train Tracks

    U.S. policy is effectively hiding the suffering of undocumented migrants.

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