How Brooks County Texas "handles" illegal immigrant passage:

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They Die in Brooks County.....

http://texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2509

"At the Side Door Café in Falfurrias, Texas, body counts enter conversations as naturally as the price of feed, or the cost of repairing torn fences. “I removed 11 bodies last year from my ranch, 12 the year before,” said prominent local landowner Presnall Cage. “I found four so far this year.” Sometimes, Cage said, he has taken survivors to a hospital; mostly, however, time and the sun have done their jobs, and it is too late.

As increased U.S. border security closes certain routes, undocumented migrants continue to come but squeeze onto fewer, more dangerous and isolated pathways to America’s interior. One of these is the network of trails that bypasses the last Border Patrol checkpoint traveling north on Hwy. 281, in Brooks County. That change is having a dramatic ripple effect on the county (total pop: 7,685), and on people who have lived here for generations.

For one thing, the dead are breaking the budget. County officials earmarked $16,000 in fiscal 2007 for handling deceased indigents. That category includes the remains of undocumented Mexicans and other would-be migrants found within county lines. But by May, Brooks County had already spent $34,195 on autopsies and burials, “and we’re just heading into the hot months now,” said County Judge Raul Ramirez. It’s also rattlesnake mating season, noted the judge, who grew up on the King Ranch. It’s the time when the serpents move around most, biting the unwary and those who walk in grass and sand without high boots."

much more.....http://texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2509

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1. Kudos to the Texas Observer.

A great little weekly from Austin.

If we regularized the flow of immigrants and temporary workers, these people would not be dying by the hundreds every year trying to get here.

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2. This article isn't based on hatred but the fear factor is definitely

there....fear of illegals by citizens, fear of citizens by illegals and fear of citizens of other citizens who participate in transpoting illegals...I agree with you the regularization would help.