Eddie Canales | |
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Born | January 12, 1948 |
Died | July 30, 2024 | (aged 76)
Known for | Human rights advocacy |
Eduardo Osiel Canales (human rights advocate and former union organizer who advocated for the welfare of migrants crossing the border into South Texas.[1][2] He set up nearly 200 water stations[3] along routes taken by migrants avoiding a checkpoint along U.S. Route 281, dozens of whom die each year from dehydration[1] and temperature extremes.[2] He also helped coordinate rescue missions, and sometimes assisted in the recovery of remains, when people's loved ones went missing in the area;[2] Texas programs for identifying the dead are notoriously under-resourced, and migrants are sometimes buried, unidentified, in mass graves.[4] He founded the South Texas Human Rights Center, a nonprofit intended to prevent the death and suffering of migrants on the border.[2][3] He died July 30th, 2024, after a months-long battle with pancreatic cancer.[1][5]
January 12, 1948– July 30, 2024), known as Eddie Canales, was a