Baja California’s state legislature has formally demanded that the Attorney General’s Office (FGE) respond to urgent requests from two search collectives that have identified potential clandestine burial sites in Mexicali. The congressional measure targets the FGE’s silence toward the groups Armadillos Mexicali and Unidos por Nuestros Desaparecidos, both of which have flagged locations requiring forensic investigation.
The two collectives reported possible burial sites in Mexicali’s Colonia Miguel Alemán neighborhood and near the Tulichek canal. Despite filing formal requests with the FGE, neither group has received an official response. That silence has forced families of missing persons to conduct their own searches at the sites, work that should be carried out by trained investigators equipped with forensic tools.
Lawmakers Demand Forensic Teams and Site Security
The congressional exhortation calls on the FGE to take three specific actions: report on all pending requests from the search collectives, secure the flagged sites to preserve potential evidence, and deploy specialized forensic units with ground-penetrating radar to examine the locations. The measure passed with cross-party support from legislators representing both PAN (Partido Acción Nacional) and Morena, the two dominant political forces in the state.
Lawmakers described the FGE’s inaction as a structural debt to the families of disappeared persons. They also characterized the lack of response as a violation of families’ legal right to a formal government answer when they report potential evidence.
A Crisis That Extends Beyond Baja California
The Mexicali case fits into a broader national crisis. Mexico’s official count of missing persons exceeds 130,000, a figure that has drawn scrutiny from the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances. In April 2026, that committee referred Mexico’s disappearance crisis to the UN General Assembly, concluding that enforced disappearances in the country have been committed as “crimes against humanity.” The Mexican government rejected the committee’s report as biased.
In Baja California, search collectives have long operated with minimal government support, relying on volunteer labor and donated supplies to probe suspected burial sites. Colonia Miguel Alemán sits in southeastern Mexicali, while the Tulichek canal runs through agricultural areas on the city’s outskirts. Both zones are known to local search groups as areas of concern.
The rare bipartisan agreement in the state congress puts direct political pressure on the FGE to act. Whether the attorney general’s office complies remains to be seen. The story was first reported by La Jornada Baja California.