THE BORDER REPORT

This is the most recent information I've received on the two women who went missing Sept. 1.

A search is continuing for Erika Zepeda Caballero and Estela Juárez Martínez, who disappeared more than two weeks ago in the Arizona desert. Both women are from Puebla, they share the same birthday, today in fact, and are 21 years old.

According to their friend, Amandine Poirson, who's keeping me updated, the two women slipped through the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation some time in late August and last had contact with familymembers on Sept. 1.

Judging from the map of their entry, it appears they crossed near the San Miguel Gate at Cochi Feo. That's Nacho Paez territory. Apparently, they managed to make it north of Gu Vo and were somewhere southeast of Hickiwan when they called the last time. (Click on the map for a full view).

Ericka was going to live with her husband Samuel Contreras Díaz who lives near Chicago in Mundelein. She is the mother of two boys, four and two years old and she left them with her mother-in-law in Puebla to cross into the U.S. Her parents work in North Carolina. Estela Juárez Martínez was traveling to live with her husband Erasto Díaz Velásquez, also living in Mundelein. She has a five-year-old daughter. Both women came up from La Preciosita, a municipality of Tlahuapan, Puebla.

I'd appreciate it if you readers could pass this information around to the Samaritans, not sure they've heard about it and some of you Feds, can you please pass this on to BorStar? I've been thinking about it and I'm not sure the Samaritans are allowed to work the Rez.

-- Michael Marizco