Legal Immigrants
They flew to Monterrey in a private plane.
There, in the year 2008, they kicked off their triumphant tour. They were declared distinguished guests and were put on nine floats to tour the town.
It was as if they were politicians on a victory lap, but they weren't.
They were mummies, mummies from the cholera plague that had devastated the city of Guanajuato more than a century and a half before.
The eleven women, seven men, five children and a bodiless head, all dressed for a party, then crossed the border. Though these mummies were Mexican, no one asked for their passports, nor did the border guards harass them.
They continued unimpeded to Los Angeles, Las vegas and Chicago, where they paraded under flowered arches to cheering crowds.
Eduardo Galeano
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