While U.S. attention in recent years has focused on the supposed hordes of “invading” illegal immigrants seeking to cross the southern border, “Identifying Features” is about a separate but related…
Mercedes Hernandez, David Illescas, Juan Jesus Varela, Ana Laura Rodriguez, Laura Elena Ibarra, Xicotencatl Ulloa.While U.S. attention in recent years has focused on the supposed hordes of “invading” illegal immigrants seeking to cross the southern border, “” is about a separate but related concern: The alarming if unknowable number of those immigrants who go missing, often robbed, kidnapped and/or killed, before they ever reach our soil.
Magdalena and neighbor Chuya are frantic with worry after their teenage sons haven’t been heard from in the two months since they set off from their native Guanajuato to find work in the U.S. The authorities offer little help, but when badgered, they show the women a book of corpses recently found — and, horrifically, Chuya’s child is among them. But there’s no proof that Magdalena’s son was also killed by whomever ambushed the northbound bus both boys were riding.
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