Immigration notes -- a sad story

This is a link to a story that appeared to day in Mexico's La Jornada, a national newspaper of good, if leftist, repute. The story is not leftist, though, and could have appeared exactly as written in any Mexican paper. It tells about two young Mayan restaurant workers in a San Francisco who were killed on December 15 coming out of a grocery store after they finished work by, according to authorities, a "racist group." According to the article, the murder was not investigated further. The two youths had been friends since childhood. Their bodies arrived home just two days ago because the parents didn't have enough money to fly the bodies back. The government of their town, Akil, in the Yucatan helped with fifty percent of the costs and the parents and some other Mexican government sources paid the rest. The boys are being buried in the cemetery of the indigenous population in Akil.