Brooks County in South Texas is part of a known migrant corridor used by undocumented border cros... more Brooks County in South Texas is part of a known migrant corridor used by undocumented border crossers entering Texas through the U.S./Mexico border. Operation Identification (OpID) at Texas State University is a project which aims to facilitate the identification and repatriation of human remains found along or near the South Texas border through scientific analysis and collaboration with governmental and nongovernmental organization. The project utilizes a multifaceted anthropological approach towards identification including traditional osteological, dental, isotopic, genetic, and histological analyses. Additionally, OpID incorporates biocultural lines of evidence not commonly used in biological anthropology such as analyses of missing persons reports for comparison of antemortem and postmortem data, and exmination of personal effects to help establish identification hypotheses. Since 2013, OpID has received a total of 195 sets of human remains or presumed migrants and has helped facilitate in the identification of 18 individuals.
Brooks County in South Texas is part of a known migrant corridor used by undocumented border cros... more Brooks County in South Texas is part of a known migrant corridor used by undocumented border crossers entering Texas through the U.S./Mexico border. Operation Identification (OpID) at Texas State University is a project which aims to facilitate the identification and repatriation of human remains found along or near the South Texas border through scientific analysis and collaboration with governmental and nongovernmental organization. The project utilizes a multifaceted anthropological approach towards identification including traditional osteological, dental, isotopic, genetic, and histological analyses. Additionally, OpID incorporates biocultural lines of evidence not commonly used in biological anthropology such as analyses of missing persons reports for comparison of antemortem and postmortem data, and exmination of personal effects to help establish identification hypotheses. Since 2013, OpID has received a total of 195 sets of human remains or presumed migrants and has helped facilitate in the identification of 18 individuals.
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