Searching for migrants takes deputy into desolate, dangerous ranchlands of South Texas
by: Sandra Sanchez
Posted: Jun 18, 2024 / 07:06 PM CDT
Updated: Jun 18, 2024 / 07:06 PM CDT
BROOKS COUNTY, Texas (Border Report) — Brooks County Sheriff’s Deputy Don White was trudging through a thicket of thorny weeds and downed branches looking for migrants in these remote ranchlands on Monday when he got a call that a body had been found on the other side of the county.
It had already taken White several minutes to get into this particular spot, and considerable time driving to the area in his old, beat up Jeep, so he radioed back that he couldn’t make it to the body and to send it to the morgue.
That was the second body to be found in this South Texas county in two days and the 17th deceased migrant found here, so far this year.
A white cross was placed Monday to mark the spot where migrant Jose Manuel, 24, of Mexico City, died in November 2022 while trying to walk through remote Brooks County, Texas, to avoid a Border Patrol checkpoint. (Sandra …
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White, 71, has run the Wildlands Search and Recovery Program here for nearly a decade. He’s the search and recovery deputy and he knows these lands well and he knows how deadly they can be.
In 2021, there were 121 migrant deaths in Brooks County.
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