Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains Act provides funding to Coastal Bend counties facing immigration issues
In 2020, there were some 35 bodies found in Brooks County alone, bringing the total to around 800 remains found over the past 10 years. Author: Michael Gibson (KIII) Updated: 6:57 PM CST February 1, 2021
TEXAS, USA Brooks, Duval and Kenedy County are soon going to get some financial relief thanks to a new law that Congressman Vicente Gonzalez helped get enacted. The law will reimburse counties for the cost associated with immigrant bodies discovered in South Texas.
The remains of immigrants have turned up around Brooks County for as long as anyone can remember. The county sits in some of the hottest and driest stretches of the Wild Horse Desert, or as some people call it, The Desert of the Dead.
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Every year, Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra and his deputies are called out to areas along the Rio Grande to investigate the cause of death and identify migrants. It is a lengthy process, especially if the individual does not have any forms of identification, Guerra said.
The process includes identifying the person and finding their family, which comes with a hefty price across counties throughout the southern border.
Brooks County Sheriff Benny Martinez said that between 2009 and 2012, Brooks County inherited a tab of about $680,700.
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A South Texas sheriff’s office deputy recovered the body of a recently deceased migrant on a ranch located about 90 miles from the U.S-Mexico border. The migrant appeared to die near the end of his attempt to march around the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint on U.S. Highway 281.
Brooks County Sheriff’s Office dispatchers received information from Falfurrias Station Border Patrol agents regarding the discovery of a deceased migrant. Dispatchers sent Deputy Jose Lemus to the ranch located west of the city of Falfurrias, Texas, according to information provided by Brooks County Sheriff’s Office officials.
A suspected undocumented migrant is found dead on a ranch in Brooks County, Texas. (Photo: Brooks County Sheriff’s Office/Deputy Jose Lemus)
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In this March 2, 2019, file photo, a Customs and Border Control agent patrols on the U.S. side of a razor-wire-covered border wall along Mexico east of Nogales. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
DOUGLAS, AZ Heat exposure killed 19-year-old Cesar de la Cruz on an Arizona trail in July during his trek up from southern Mexico. The body of Juan Lopez Valencia, another young Mexican man, was discovered Aug. 3 along a dry wash on Native American land.
After the hottest, driest summer in state history, authorities have recovered close to a 10-year record in the number of bodies of people who crossed from Mexico into Arizona s deserts, valleys and mountains. It s a reminder that the most remote paths to enter the U.S. can be the deadliest.
DOUGLAS, Ariz. Heat exposure killed 19-year-old Cesar de la Cruz on an Arizona trail in July during his trek up from southern Mexico. The body of Juan Lopez Valencia, another young Mexican man, was discovered Aug. 3 along a dry wash on Native American land. After the hottest, driest summer in state history, authorities […]