Later, they mailed the passport to the Salvadoran consulate and reported the body to the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office in New Mexico — even though the sheriff sometimes doesn’t respond and has accused volunteers of planting bones in the desert.
Even if they are “planting bones in the desert,” would it not be police procedure to recover them and figure who they killed to get them? That was an extraordinarily hard read, and makes me even more infuriated about the dehumanization of folks who are not-straight-white-men. God, what a mess we are in!
