Hispanics say they come to Kentucky because they can make five times as much money as in Mexico. No arrests had been made by last night, according to the Kentucky State Police. I thought it would be good for his family. He used to send them money every week or every other week. Telephone calls to Mexico to find families, and payments to people who translate mandatory immigration paperwork, can mean several hundreds of dollars in additional bills.
Some Mexican villages have only one telephone, prolonging identification efforts.
And if the worker lived in the United States illegally, said Jessamine County Coroner Joe Northup, the problems are compounded. Northup said the body of a Hispanic worker who died in a mobile home fire this year almost had to be buried in an unmarked grave. Although it's not known how many illegal immigrants end up buried unidentified in Kentucky each year, it's fairly common, officials say. The Jessamine County worker was using a false name, backed up with fake immigration papers and a Social Security number, Northup said. Bautista Tovar's cousins from Springfield, Tenn., arrived in Versailles yesterday with an English-speaking minister to get the body, after several weeks of investigation with the help of a translator.