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'Border Angels' Tend Cemetery of Unknowns

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Enrique Morones, president of the Border Angels.

Many immigrants who try to enter California illegally from Mexico and Central America cross the border into Imperial County. Many don't make it alive. In the southeastern California town of Holtville, we stop by a cemetery where many of those unlucky immigrants are anonymously buried. Reporter: Lisa Morehouse

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