
Mirza Monterroros, Colibri Center for Human Rights, talks to Border Report in her office at the Mexican Consulate in Tucson, Arizona. They get sick, they get anxious, they can’t sleep the night before,” said Monterroso, the Missing Migrants Program director at the Colibri Center for Human Rights. It’s basically an acceptance that their loved ones may have passed. It is a delicate, tactful job where she and other team members use their Spanish language and cultural skills to manage highly emotional situations. She works out of an office in the Mexican consulate in Tucson, keeping track of DNA databases and contacting families whose loved ones disappeared on his or her way to the United States.
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Now a working professional in the U.S., she is using her forensic science skills to tell a family in Latin America, “we found your son, your father, your sister.” Mirza Monterroso grew up in Guatemala, watching how poverty, crime and violence drove people out of her country. Bringing medical, cultural and language skills to the table


But when it comes to finding out whose body or bones were brought to the facility, county officials will continue to rely on partners like foreign consulates and nonprofits like the Colibri Center for Human Rights. The Pima County Board of Supervisors this month earmarked $24 million in next year’s budget for a bigger, more modern ME’s Office. Arizona deals with record number of migrant deaths
