U.S. rights group leads effort to identify Mexican immigrant on life support for 16 years

*What a tough story to read. An immigrant from Mexico has been on life support for 15 years. He’s finally identified using DNA. His family was notified, but this isn’t about a happy ending. There is a long road ahead for both the patient and his family. VL

By Rebekah ager, Fox News Latino

After 16 years living on life support in a nursing facility in California, a man in his mid-30s has finally been identified by his family.

Up till now, the patient has only been known as “Garage 66.”

He is named after the repair shop where a van he was traveling in was taken to after it crashed in 1999. The van, which had traveled from Mexico to the U.S., crashed while it was trying to evade U.S. Border Patrol and caused the severe brain damage Garage 66 lives with today.

The San Diego-based Border Angels, an immigrant rights group, helped identify the man and worked with other agencies to locate his family in Mexico.

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