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(plastic scraping)

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(car engine roaring)

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- You want some beef?

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We\'ll throw her in the back, baby beef.

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(car engine roaring)

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(birds crowing)

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Whoa, something going on here.

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(car engine roaring)

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(birds crowing)

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Yeah, they\'re here.

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(birds crowing)

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(grass rustling)

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(footsteps approaching)

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(flies buzzing)

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Okay, yeah, this is Eddie Canales

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with the South Texas Human Rights Center.

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I\'m on the north ranch,
and I located a body

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of a deceased migrant.

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(radio calling)

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(car engines roaring)

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- United States citizen?

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(radio calling)

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This is the Falfurrias

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Border Patrol checkpoint.

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We\'re located about 70
miles north of the border.

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It\'s the busiest one in Texas.

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People will attempt to smuggle individuals

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through these
tractor-trailers and what-not,

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and this forces them to
go around the checkpoint.

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- [Announcer] Howdy South Texas,
happy Thursday to you all,

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hope y\'all are having a nice Thursday.

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Once again extremely hot,
things are creeping back

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into the one hundreds.

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Here in Corpus Christi, pretty darn close

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with 96 is our high, only 89 in Portland,

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94 in Rockport and 100 degrees in Alice.

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But right now in downtown
Corpus Christi, mostly sunny...

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- Eddie Canales, South
Texas Human Rights Center.

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(caller speaking in Spanish)

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(Eddie speaking in Spanish)

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(caller speaking in Spanish)

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(Eddie speaking in Spanish)

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(caller speaking in Spanish)

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(car engines roaring)

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(soft music)

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(Elena whispering)

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(utensils clattering)

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(Michelle speaking in Spanish)

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(Omar speaking in Spanish)

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(Elena speaking in Spanish)

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(Omar speaking in Spanish)

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(Michelle speaking in Spanish)

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(utensils clattering)

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- [Michelle] Okay, yeah, okay.

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- [Omar] It\'s recording

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♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

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♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

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♪ Happy birthday ♪

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(all laughing)

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(soft music)

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- When he was 27, my brother
Homero had a traffic violation

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and he got deported back to Mexico.

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(motorcycle hooting)

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The last time he was in
Mexico, he was five years old.

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My younger brother and sister,
they\'re both US citizens.

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I\'m a resident, but
Homero is undocumented.

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In Mexico, he met his family
for the first time in 22 years.

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His grandmother, uncles, cousins.

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(Elena speaking in Spanish)

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- [Omar] My brother tried
his hardest to get accustomed

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to life over there, but

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life is just not the
same without your family.

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- Two years ago, we went to visit him.

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I could tell that he was happy to see us,

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but he was also like, I wanna
go back with y\'all, you know?

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- So I remember him taking the decision

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to come back to the United States.

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My parents and us, we wanted him here,

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but we didn\'t want him
to make that journey.

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But it was his choice.

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(electronic beeping)

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(river flowing)

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- [Omar] So Homero crossed the border.

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He made it to the United States.

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He was in Mission, Texas.

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He spent a couple days there,
until they made the journey.

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The journey through the desert.

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(electronic beeping)

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(insects chirping)

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(soft music)

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(grass rustling)

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(door creaking)

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- All right, you go ahead and go in first.

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(paper rustling)

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(indistinct chattering)

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(rustling)

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(indistinct chattering)

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- So I mentioned Brooks County,
we have about 200 remains

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in our laboratory right now from people

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who died in Brooks County
and were buried there.

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And this is where Brooks
County is right there.

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You see, it\'s not
technically on the border,

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it\'s away from the border.

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When people cross in this area,

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a coyote will drive them
up to Brooks County,

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they get out of the car,
then they have to walk

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around the checkpoint here,
and this is when people die.

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The most likely cause of death
is dehydration or exposure.

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There\'s a Sheriff, a Sheriff deputy,

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a few other people who work
at the Sheriff\'s office.

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There\'s not a lot of people to handle

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that kind of rising death toll.

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But a little background the
Clinton administration in 1994

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put into effect Operation
Gatekeeper in California,

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Operation Safeguard in Arizona

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and Operation Hold the Line in Texas.

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And the goal with this was
to shut down the borders

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that were easier to
cross, to funnel people

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into the most dangerous terrain.

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And they knew there was going
to be a large death toll.

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But they assumed that would prevent

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more migrants from coming.

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And it didn\'t, it funneled them

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into the most dangerous place to cross,

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and they never stopped trying to come.

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Texas now has surpassed Arizona

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in the number of migrant deaths.

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(Moises speaking in Spanish)

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(caller indistinctly speaking)

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(Moises speaking in Spanish)

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(Eddie speaking in Spanish)

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(Moises speaking in Spanish)

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(Eddie speaking in Spanish)

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- You know, he come from Mexico because

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he\'s trying to get married.

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But his girlfriend\'s
dad, he told my cousin,

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\"You don\'t have money,
you don\'t have nothing,

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so I want my daughter
to have a better life.\"

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Yeah, that\'s why he come right here.

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You know, in Mexico you can live the life,

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you know, you can live better,

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but you have to be in the mafias.

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Yeah, everything\'s like
that, whole of Mexico.

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- Craig, this is Eddie
Canales, you in the office,

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you at the Border Patrol station?

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Hey, on that case of Juan Maceda,
I got a call from his dad.

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I think I got some good information.

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Yeah, it\'s definitely the Mariposa Ranch.

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(birds chirping)

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(radio calling)

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(car cranking)

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- In this ranch, as you can
see, everything looks the same.

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A person can say, \"We
were waiting by a fence.\"

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And the fence is the same
three miles back as right here.

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So for us to find that one
place is very, very hard.

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And this is the third one in a week.

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(radio calling)

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It used to get to me.

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So now, kind of... we don\'t
call them people any more.

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We call them bodies,

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because if you start calling them people,

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then is starts getting to you.

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(insects buzzing)

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(grass rustling)

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(footsteps leaving)

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(car door banging)

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(car engine roaring)

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(soft music)

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(car engines roaring)

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- Been here 31 years.

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(car engine roaring)

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When we first got here,
two or three times a week,

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there\'d be two Mexican peasants show up.

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Nice, polite people.

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Then it started escalating,
and the groups got bigger.

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When the 90s started, it really escalated.

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During the Clinton administration.

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We have a huge human smuggling

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and drug smuggling problem
here in Brooks County.

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I\'m just one that is not in
favor of the water stations.

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I\'m not gonna put them on my property

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because they\'re attracting
criminal activity.

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But there\'s other ranchers that allow them

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on their property.

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I have water sources that are available,

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if somebody desperately
needs water, they get it.

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(flies buzzing)

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(car engine roaring)

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We had goldfish in there to
kind of keep it clean, anyway.

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(metal clanking)

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(car engine roaring)

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I\'ve got my suspicions
about Eddie Canales.

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Where we see these jugs,
they\'re known smuggling trails.

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Now, how does he know that?

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(chuckling)

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He knows it because he knows
the people that are bringing

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the contraband and the
people through there.

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But I think he\'s connected and
he knows where these people

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are coming through and that\'s
where he\'s gonna put the jugs.

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And we\'re just waiting to try
to catch him loading some up

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and sneaking them around the checkpoint.

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(man speaking in Spanish)

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(Candido speaking in Spanish)

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- [Omar] Hello?

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- [Border Agent] Hi, I\'m
calling from the Falfurrias

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Border Patrol station,
you were stating that your brother

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was lost in the brush.

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- [Omar] Yes.

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- [Border Agent] Do you
know if that was on the east

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or the west side of the highway?

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- [Omar] On the west side,

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they said there were like
six pumps, a broken antenna.

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- [Border Agent] Okay, we
have agents in the area.

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We\'ll have them look for him.

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(car engine roaring)

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- [Michelle] Are y\'all out
there already looking for him?

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- [Border Agent] Yes,
there\'s people already

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who have been looking for him ma\'am.

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- [Michelle] And are y\'all
doing helicopters or...

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- [Border Agent] They got all the assets

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and all the equipment they
could possibly use right now,

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is being used.

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- [Michelle] Okay.

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- [Border Agent] I was
speaking with Ms. Gold here,

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the supervisor, and she was
giving me a lot of descriptions

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about, six pumps and a
sign with a bull on it.

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I mean, I\'ve been working here for years,

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and there\'s lots of ranches with pumps,

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there\'s lots of signs of bulls.

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It\'s 900,000 square
acres, the county alone.

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And 900,000 square acres is a lot of land.

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- [Michelle] We\'re actually
here in Falfurrias.

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Is there anything we can do?

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- [Border Agent] Look, I\'m not concerned

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with arresting anybody.

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If the person that y\'all are talking to,

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that he made the arrangements with,

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is willing to talk to me so I
can get a better description

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of where he\'s at, that would really help.

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(soft music)

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(Omar speaking in Spanish)

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(Smuggler speaking in Spanish)

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(Omar speaking in Spanish)

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(Smuggler speaking in Spanish)

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(Omar speaking in Spanish)

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(Smuggler speaking in Spanish)

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(crickets chirping)

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(phone ringing)

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- We had a call, like at eleven at night.

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And then my mom, I heard her crying.

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She came in my room, and I woke up.

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And I was like, \"What\'s going on?\"

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At first I was happy,
like she\'s probably crying

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\'cause my brother got here,

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but it was the complete opposite.

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(Omar speaking in Spanish)

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(Extortionist speaking in Spanish)

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(Omar speaking in Spanish)

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(Extortionist speaking in Spanish)

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(Omar speaking in Spanish)

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(Extortionist speaking in Spanish)

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(Omar speaking in Spanish)

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(Extortionist speaking in Spanish)

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(Omar speaking in Spanish)

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(Extortionist speaking in Spanish)

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- I mean, we didn\'t know
what to do, we were lost.

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We were like, \"What\'s going on?\"

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(Elena speaking in Spanish)

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- But yeah, to this day, I mean,

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we don\'t know what\'s going on.

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- When you\'re having fun or smiling,

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you\'re like, is this wrong?

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Are we even supposed to have fun?

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Aren\'t we supposed to be
looking for our brother?

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(birds howling)

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(insects buzzing)

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(soft music)

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(spades clanking)

00:23:58.562 --> 00:24:01.898
(indistinct chattering)

00:24:05.026 --> 00:24:07.319
(paper rustling)

00:24:07.320 --> 00:24:09.655
- Alright, well thank you for coming.

00:24:09.656 --> 00:24:13.534
Migrant deaths continue to be
an issue that is unaddressed

00:24:13.535 --> 00:24:15.703
on a national basis sufficiently,

00:24:15.704 --> 00:24:19.331
in terms of people being
buried without the DNA.

00:24:19.332 --> 00:24:23.419
So I\'m gonna turn it over to the people

00:24:23.420 --> 00:24:27.465
that are responsible for
doing this exhumation.

00:24:27.466 --> 00:24:30.301
- This is the third time
that forensic anthropologists

00:24:30.302 --> 00:24:34.305
have been to the cemetery to
conduct those exhumations.

00:24:34.306 --> 00:24:36.765
- We will be here about
eight or nine days,

00:24:36.766 --> 00:24:39.810
but depending on how many
people we recover this season,

00:24:39.811 --> 00:24:41.937
it could take up to one year.

00:24:41.938 --> 00:24:43.355
And the first thing that will happen,

00:24:43.356 --> 00:24:46.484
the remains will be transported
to Texas State University,

00:24:46.485 --> 00:24:48.027
where they will be processed.

00:24:48.028 --> 00:24:50.529
- This wasn\'t done in the
past when these individuals

00:24:50.530 --> 00:24:53.032
who are buried in the
cemetery, when they were found.

00:24:53.033 --> 00:24:55.034
DNA samples weren\'t necessarily taken.

00:24:55.035 --> 00:24:57.203
So they were buried without
a chance at identification,

00:24:57.204 --> 00:24:58.913
which is why we\'re conducting exhumations

00:24:58.914 --> 00:25:00.956
in the first place, we need the DNA to try

00:25:00.957 --> 00:25:02.208
and make identifications,

00:25:02.209 --> 00:25:04.043
so if you have a loved one missing,

00:25:04.044 --> 00:25:07.463
we need a DNA sample from
family members to try

00:25:07.464 --> 00:25:09.841
and compare it to the
unidentified remains.

00:25:10.967 --> 00:25:12.718
(plastic scraping)

00:25:12.719 --> 00:25:15.429
- We realized there was a
big problem along the border,

00:25:15.430 --> 00:25:18.557
and I don\'t think anybody
realized just how big it was.

00:25:18.558 --> 00:25:20.226
We were trying to answer the question,

00:25:20.227 --> 00:25:24.104
how many people have died
along the U.S./Mexico border.

00:25:24.105 --> 00:25:25.357
You couldn\'t answer that,

00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:29.694
we realized we hardly knew anything.

00:25:30.820 --> 00:25:32.947
We will go to county records,

00:25:32.948 --> 00:25:34.865
some counties have an
indigent burial program

00:25:34.866 --> 00:25:37.660
and have records, and what
we found is their records

00:25:37.661 --> 00:25:40.496
are not always accurate, and
they\'re fairly incomplete.

00:25:40.497 --> 00:25:44.083
We supposed that just about
every single individual

00:25:44.084 --> 00:25:45.918
had to have a death certificate.

00:25:45.919 --> 00:25:48.003
We got records from Vital Statistics,

00:25:48.004 --> 00:25:50.422
but they only date back to 2006,

00:25:50.423 --> 00:25:52.008
and they\'re not complete either.

00:25:53.635 --> 00:25:57.012
We generated ourselves a list
of cemeteries in each area,

00:25:57.013 --> 00:25:59.848
so we go and we physically
walk through the cemeteries

00:25:59.849 --> 00:26:01.892
looking for unidentifieds.

00:26:01.893 --> 00:26:03.769
- There\'s a John Doe
buried somewhere in here.

00:26:03.770 --> 00:26:07.106
- [Kate] We have physically
found about 130 burials

00:26:07.107 --> 00:26:11.110
and then areas where there\'s
potentially up to 300 more.

00:26:11.111 --> 00:26:12.987
We\'re not even scratching the surface

00:26:12.988 --> 00:26:14.738
with the three counties we visited.

00:26:14.739 --> 00:26:17.157
- There\'s another cemetery
that\'s got some unidentified.

00:26:17.158 --> 00:26:19.828
- Oh really?
It\'s not La Siestas?

00:26:20.704 --> 00:26:22.913
- Latina, and the owner is...

00:26:22.914 --> 00:26:24.790
- We haven\'t been there.
- Yeah.

00:26:24.791 --> 00:26:28.043
It\'s shocking to find that
there\'s been thousands of people

00:26:28.044 --> 00:26:30.964
that have died, and we don\'t
know what happened to them.

00:26:42.434 --> 00:26:45.186
(grass rustling)

00:26:51.026 --> 00:26:53.945
(plastic scraping)

00:27:19.012 --> 00:27:20.347
Let\'s go check some others.

00:27:24.184 --> 00:27:27.436
The water\'s still in it,
it don\'t bother the water.

00:27:27.437 --> 00:27:30.357
(footsteps moving)

00:27:31.900 --> 00:27:34.860
- Brooks County is
reeling over $2,000 worth

00:27:34.861 --> 00:27:37.154
of missing property,
someone stole more than

00:27:37.155 --> 00:27:39.531
a dozen water stations meant for people

00:27:39.532 --> 00:27:41.367
who cross the border illegally.

00:27:41.368 --> 00:27:43.285
- [Reporter] These high
flying flags are meant

00:27:43.286 --> 00:27:45.371
to be symbols of hope for those lost

00:27:45.372 --> 00:27:47.247
in the brush of Brooks County.

00:27:47.248 --> 00:27:50.459
Eddie Canales started the
project several years ago.

00:27:50.460 --> 00:27:52.836
- This is a humanitarian aid effort.

00:27:52.837 --> 00:27:54.421
So if you\'re removing
those water stations,

00:27:54.422 --> 00:27:55.881
what\'s the statement?

00:27:55.882 --> 00:27:57.342
You\'d rather have people die?

00:27:58.218 --> 00:28:00.052
- [Reporter] If you know
anything about those thefts,

00:28:00.053 --> 00:28:02.888
you\'re asked to call the Brooks
County Sheriff\'s office...

00:28:02.889 --> 00:28:05.182
(birds crowing)

00:28:05.183 --> 00:28:08.186
(soft music)

00:28:14.234 --> 00:28:17.320
(car engine roaring)

00:28:22.075 --> 00:28:25.829
(woman speaking in Spanish)

00:28:30.208 --> 00:28:32.668
- I\'m very worried because my cousin Juan

00:28:32.669 --> 00:28:34.337
has been missing for three days.

00:28:35.338 --> 00:28:37.798
(woman speaking in Spanish)

00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:40.676
I don\'t go nowhere, I go to the store

00:28:40.677 --> 00:28:44.597
and get something to eat
and go back to the hotel.

00:28:45.682 --> 00:28:47.975
I don\'t know, right here,
maybe I\'m going to find some,

00:28:47.976 --> 00:28:51.563
like, Narcos-bad guys,
right here in this place.

00:28:53.773 --> 00:28:58.610
My uncle told me, he\'s still
waiting for the good news,

00:28:58.611 --> 00:29:02.282
he\'s still alive, but I
tell him, we don\'t know.

00:29:11.666 --> 00:29:13.083
- [Radio Voice] Two-eighty-three, update.

00:29:13.084 --> 00:29:14.334
- Yes sir, go ahead.

00:29:14.335 --> 00:29:17.797
(man speaking in on walkie-talkie)

00:29:29.225 --> 00:29:31.351
- They found one.

00:29:31.352 --> 00:29:33.103
Ten-four, headed that way.

00:29:33.104 --> 00:29:36.191
(car engine revving)

00:29:38.485 --> 00:29:41.154
(birds crowing)

00:29:47.076 --> 00:29:50.413
(indistinct chattering)

00:30:01.883 --> 00:30:04.636
(plastic bag rustling)

00:30:06.971 --> 00:30:09.808
(leaves rustling)

00:30:11.017 --> 00:30:13.937
(insects buzzing)

00:30:19.526 --> 00:30:21.401
\'83... that would make him what?

00:30:21.402 --> 00:30:23.154
- [Agent] 33, 32.

00:30:24.405 --> 00:30:25.656
- So we\'re still missing one.

00:30:25.657 --> 00:30:28.451
- [Agent] We\'re still missing
that kid, the 18-year old.

00:30:31.079 --> 00:30:34.123
- Yeah, let\'s keep looking for that kid.

00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:37.334
(indistinct chattering)

00:30:37.335 --> 00:30:41.463
- [Sean] 18-year old illegal
immigrant Jose Montano,

00:30:41.464 --> 00:30:46.218
they allegedly brutally
raped a 14-year old girl

00:30:46.219 --> 00:30:48.095
in a bathroom stall.

00:30:48.096 --> 00:30:49.888
Now, despite their age, the pair...

00:30:49.889 --> 00:30:52.224
- We\'ve got Houston,
Texas as a sanctuary city

00:30:52.225 --> 00:30:53.184
and that\'s our problem here.

00:30:53.185 --> 00:30:54.768
Most of our traffic\'s coming through,

00:30:54.769 --> 00:30:56.895
and we\'re in a war zone here.

00:30:56.896 --> 00:30:59.606
So ten years ago, myself
and others organized

00:30:59.607 --> 00:31:03.151
a group called Texas Border Volunteers.

00:31:03.152 --> 00:31:05.529
We go out on all this private property

00:31:05.530 --> 00:31:07.156
and try to get them apprehended.

00:31:08.491 --> 00:31:10.576
- [Rocky] Polecat and
Torches are gonna go out

00:31:10.577 --> 00:31:13.245
to the Vargas Trap at the airport.

00:31:13.246 --> 00:31:15.956
Buoy and Tall Kid in their own mule.

00:31:15.957 --> 00:31:20.043
The two gentlemen from
Dallas and Torches in P4.

00:31:20.044 --> 00:31:21.962
And up there with them, Gabby and Cactus

00:31:21.963 --> 00:31:26.800
riding their own ATVs with
their own night vision.

00:31:26.801 --> 00:31:29.888
(car engine roaring)

00:31:54.787 --> 00:31:57.624
(leaves rustling)

00:32:19.187 --> 00:32:22.190
(crickets chirping)

00:32:33.618 --> 00:32:37.245
The way we operate, the ideal situation,

00:32:37.246 --> 00:32:41.124
is that we\'d see a
group, we\'d report them,

00:32:41.125 --> 00:32:44.336
and the Border Patrol would
come out and arrest them,

00:32:44.337 --> 00:32:45.922
and we were never seen.

00:32:46.965 --> 00:32:51.134
Now we\'re not successful
in doing it that way,

00:32:51.135 --> 00:32:52.679
more than say, half the time.

00:32:54.472 --> 00:32:56.975
(dog howling)

00:33:01.938 --> 00:33:04.941
(crickets chirping)

00:33:09.821 --> 00:33:11.864
- [Prussian] Are you hearing voices?

00:33:13.157 --> 00:33:14.200
Listen closely.

00:33:15.535 --> 00:33:18.538
(crickets chirping)

00:33:21.165 --> 00:33:23.835
- [Prussian] What I\'m
hearing is light voices.

00:33:28.214 --> 00:33:30.049
This is really getting interesting.

00:33:40.268 --> 00:33:43.021
- [Gabby] Got it, coming
up the fence line.

00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:45.522
There\'s one real close right here.

00:33:45.523 --> 00:33:47.274
- [ Yeah I actually I see him.

00:33:47.275 --> 00:33:49.485
- [Gabby] He\'s moving, whoever it is,

00:33:50.528 --> 00:33:54.532
and it\'s up against right
there, that dark spot.

00:33:55.700 --> 00:33:56.783
And it\'s coming...

00:33:56.784 --> 00:33:59.454
(phone dialing)

00:34:01.414 --> 00:34:04.417
(crickets chirping)

00:34:17.764 --> 00:34:18.598
- How\'re you doing?

00:34:18.599 --> 00:34:19.599
- [Border Agent] Are
you both U.S. citizens?

00:34:19.600 --> 00:34:20.891
- Resident.
- [Border Agent] Resident?

00:34:20.892 --> 00:34:22.434
Do you have your card with you?

00:34:22.435 --> 00:34:23.269
- [Omar] My card?

00:34:23.270 --> 00:34:25.187
- [Border Agent] Yeah, your resident card.

00:34:25.188 --> 00:34:28.774
Says you\'re a resident.
- Did you bring it?

00:34:28.775 --> 00:34:30.734
- [Michelle] Yeah.
- Yes.

00:34:30.735 --> 00:34:31.569
- [Border Agent] You do have it?

00:34:31.569 --> 00:34:32.403
- Yes.

00:34:32.404 --> 00:34:33.570
- [Border Agent] Where y\'all going?

00:34:33.571 --> 00:34:36.281
- To the hotel, Best Western
- [Border Agent] Huh?

00:34:36.282 --> 00:34:37.574
- The Best Western.

00:34:37.575 --> 00:34:39.701
- [Border Agent] In Fal?
- Yes.

00:34:39.702 --> 00:34:41.119
- [Border Agent] Y\'all
live in Fall or what?

00:34:41.120 --> 00:34:42.330
- We came from Houston.

00:34:43.581 --> 00:34:45.791
- [Border Agent] What
brings y\'all down here?

00:34:45.792 --> 00:34:48.085
- I have a missing person.
- [Border Agent] Huh?

00:34:48.086 --> 00:34:49.878
- I have a missing person down here.

00:34:49.879 --> 00:34:52.173
- [Border Agent] Oh, do you?
Can you open your trunk?

00:35:10.483 --> 00:35:14.361
- Homero Roman Gomez, we
don\'t know where he\'s at,

00:35:14.362 --> 00:35:16.489
but I still talk like he\'s still here.

00:35:17.740 --> 00:35:19.200
If he\'s alive,

00:35:23.663 --> 00:35:26.623
maybe somebody can recognize his picture,

00:35:26.624 --> 00:35:27.792
and let us know.

00:35:29.168 --> 00:35:33.046
And if he\'s dead, we just want a place

00:35:33.047 --> 00:35:36.967
where we can go to leave some flowers,

00:35:36.968 --> 00:35:41.889
but to know that he\'s
there, we just want that.

00:35:44.976 --> 00:35:46.726
- [Eddie] None of this evidence can leave

00:35:46.727 --> 00:35:49.771
the Sheriff\'s office, so that\'s
why we have to do this here.

00:35:49.772 --> 00:35:51.731
So who\'s missing?

00:35:51.732 --> 00:35:52.899
- [Omar] My brother.
- [Eddie] Your brother.

00:35:52.900 --> 00:35:53.734
- [Omar] Yes.

00:35:53.735 --> 00:35:55.443
- [Eddie] What\'s his name?
- [Omar] Homero.

00:35:55.444 --> 00:35:58.322
- [Michelle] This is the last
picture we received of him.

00:35:59.866 --> 00:36:00.991
- That\'s the shirt?
- Yes.

00:36:00.992 --> 00:36:05.997
- It\'s a green shirt,
you said black pants?

00:36:06.831 --> 00:36:09.417
- [Omar] Black jeans, yes.
- Black jeans.

00:36:10.293 --> 00:36:14.755
So, we\'re just gonna go
to the unidentified, okay?

00:36:18.509 --> 00:36:21.803
(paper rustling)

00:36:21.804 --> 00:36:24.807
(soft music)

00:36:26.058 --> 00:36:28.811
(paper rustling)

00:36:58.716 --> 00:36:59.841
- You can take them.

00:36:59.842 --> 00:37:00.676
- [STHRC Staff] You want
me to take all of them?

00:37:00.677 --> 00:37:02.177
- Yeah.

00:37:02.178 --> 00:37:05.096
(papers rustling)

00:37:05.097 --> 00:37:08.142
(soft music)

00:37:20.655 --> 00:37:24.908
This is it, from what I can tell,

00:37:24.909 --> 00:37:29.872
nothing that compares to
what you\'re saying, okay?

00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:31.666
You know, has been recovered.

00:37:32.708 --> 00:37:35.795
(car engine roaring)

00:37:37.964 --> 00:37:40.967
(soft music)

00:37:44.804 --> 00:37:47.390
(tape tearing)

00:37:53.938 --> 00:37:55.981
(Mayleen speaking in Spanish)

00:37:55.982 --> 00:37:58.441
(Omar speaking in Spanish)

00:37:58.442 --> 00:38:01.611
(Mayleen speaking in Spanish)

00:38:01.612 --> 00:38:04.699
(soft music)

00:38:05.241 --> 00:38:07.075
- [Woman] Sheriff\'s
office, how may I help you?

00:38:07.076 --> 00:38:08.201
- [Michelle] Yes, good afternoon.

00:38:08.202 --> 00:38:11.621
I\'m actually trying to have
some information regarding

00:38:11.622 --> 00:38:13.999
a family member who is missing.

00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:19.005
Does Starr County happen to
have any information of persons

00:38:19.505 --> 00:38:21.631
that they have found in Starr County?

00:38:21.632 --> 00:38:24.968
Brooks County has binders
of all the remains

00:38:24.969 --> 00:38:27.178
and bodies that they have found.

00:38:27.179 --> 00:38:30.515
- [Woman] There\'s been a lot,
a lot, of missing people.

00:38:30.516 --> 00:38:32.809
That would be the main office, m\'am.

00:38:32.810 --> 00:38:33.935
- Okay.

00:38:33.936 --> 00:38:35.103
- [Man] Let me go transfer
you let me transfer

00:38:35.104 --> 00:38:36.646
you to the jail, okay?

00:38:36.647 --> 00:38:40.025
- Okay.
(phone beeping)

00:38:40.026 --> 00:38:41.234
- [Woman] Let me transfer you to back to,

00:38:41.235 --> 00:38:44.612
to communications and ask if
they have any information.

00:38:44.613 --> 00:38:48.074
- [Man] Let me transfer you back, hello?

00:38:48.075 --> 00:38:48.993
- Yes?

00:38:48.993 --> 00:38:49.827
- [Man] Do you mind if I transfer you

00:38:49.827 --> 00:38:50.745
to the secretaries m\'am?

00:38:50.746 --> 00:38:52.788
- Okay, that\'s fine.
- [Man] Okay.

00:38:53.789 --> 00:38:56.250
- [Woman] Usually when
they find somebody, right,

00:38:57.209 --> 00:39:01.921
we usually just, uh... we
go to the regular cemetery.

00:39:01.922 --> 00:39:05.342
- But, and where do you,
where\'s the reports?

00:39:05.343 --> 00:39:08.971
[Woman] I mean, let me check,
because I think it\'s, um...

00:39:11.223 --> 00:39:13.391
it\'s with the investigators.

00:39:13.392 --> 00:39:16.270
No, I think it\'s the county
cemetery or the city cemetery.

00:39:21.067 --> 00:39:23.568
- There\'s a breakdown
in the entire system.

00:39:23.569 --> 00:39:26.613
It\'s unexplainable dysfunction
around every corner.

00:39:26.614 --> 00:39:29.074
And missed communication,
one person thinking

00:39:29.075 --> 00:39:30.825
the other person is gonna do it.

00:39:30.826 --> 00:39:34.079
And there\'s lot of laws and legalities

00:39:34.080 --> 00:39:36.081
that nobody fully understands.

00:39:36.082 --> 00:39:39.000
Families don\'t know where to
go to report a missing person,

00:39:39.001 --> 00:39:40.502
or how to submit DNA.

00:39:40.503 --> 00:39:42.462
There is no guidebook for what to do

00:39:42.463 --> 00:39:43.964
when your family goes missing.

00:39:45.466 --> 00:39:48.219
(birds chirping)

00:39:50.930 --> 00:39:53.849
(footsteps moving)

00:39:59.522 --> 00:40:01.731
The funeral home, it says
Howard Williams Turcotte

00:40:01.732 --> 00:40:04.150
Funeral Home, so I went
there a couple of days ago

00:40:04.151 --> 00:40:08.655
to ask them about the
marker with the name on it.

00:40:08.656 --> 00:40:10.698
But I also asked them if
they knew if anyone else

00:40:10.699 --> 00:40:13.243
was buried out here, or if
they buried any unknowns.

00:40:13.244 --> 00:40:17.247
And they said no, and they
weren\'t very forthcoming

00:40:17.248 --> 00:40:18.581
with information.

00:40:18.582 --> 00:40:21.042
So, even the people that buried them,

00:40:21.043 --> 00:40:22.335
it\'s hard to get the information.

00:40:22.336 --> 00:40:23.753
So it\'s these people with memory recall,

00:40:23.754 --> 00:40:26.631
the people that work here,
that remember these things.

00:40:26.632 --> 00:40:29.385
Like mowing the lawn and
knocking these markers off.

00:40:30.302 --> 00:40:31.761
Those are the only people that remember

00:40:31.762 --> 00:40:34.264
where the unidentifieds are buried.

00:40:34.265 --> 00:40:37.101
(leaves rustling)

00:40:39.603 --> 00:40:42.982
- There were three, they
found them on the ranch.

00:40:44.692 --> 00:40:47.027
I ran over the little plate.

00:40:48.737 --> 00:40:52.491
And I think there was
another one over there.

00:40:53.325 --> 00:40:57.455
- So here, here and here, is what he said.

00:40:59.039 --> 00:41:01.876
(spades scraping)

00:41:05.337 --> 00:41:06.172
- [Student] We found one right here,

00:41:06.173 --> 00:41:08.548
and then we found one next to it.

00:41:08.549 --> 00:41:11.259
And then we just found another small one.

00:41:11.260 --> 00:41:13.678
It was just all the remains in a body bag,

00:41:13.679 --> 00:41:15.930
so they wrapped it up
so it was more compact.

00:41:15.931 --> 00:41:18.183
- [Eddie] It was all skeletal remains?

00:41:18.184 --> 00:41:20.185
- [Student] Most likely, we
don\'t know for certain yet.

00:41:20.186 --> 00:41:21.145
- We haven\'t opened it yet.

00:41:21.145 --> 00:41:21.979
- [Student] We haven\'t opened it yet,

00:41:21.980 --> 00:41:24.356
but it was just smaller...
- It\'s very recent.

00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:28.067
What we\'ve learned this time around,

00:41:28.068 --> 00:41:31.404
is that everywhere you
see a patch of grass

00:41:31.405 --> 00:41:33.823
with nothing on it,
that\'s an area that needs

00:41:33.824 --> 00:41:35.450
to be investigated.

00:41:35.451 --> 00:41:37.577
We were very bold in saying we may finish

00:41:37.578 --> 00:41:40.079
off this cemetery, I
think we\'re gonna be here

00:41:40.080 --> 00:41:42.416
for a long time, for
several years to come.

00:41:46.545 --> 00:41:48.379
(soft upbeat music)

00:41:48.380 --> 00:41:51.008
(door creaking)

00:41:52.384 --> 00:41:55.595
- [Eddie] Everything,
the rebar, the poles,

00:41:55.596 --> 00:41:59.682
the barrel, everything was
taken, the flags, everything.

00:41:59.683 --> 00:42:01.936
They just took everything,
fifteen of them.

00:42:06.065 --> 00:42:07.941
(metal clanking)

00:42:07.942 --> 00:42:12.071
- [Student] 27-degrees,
four feet, 43 inches, north.

00:42:15.699 --> 00:42:19.537
(soft upbeat music continues)

00:42:25.918 --> 00:42:28.671
(metal clanking)

00:42:33.551 --> 00:42:37.345
- I used to have a pure Red Cross flag.

00:42:37.346 --> 00:42:41.558
The Red Cross threatened to
sue me, and I changed my flag.

00:42:41.559 --> 00:42:45.311
(soft upbeat music)

00:42:45.312 --> 00:42:48.482
(car engine roaring)

00:42:54.321 --> 00:42:56.990
- I think he reported
that 14 water stations

00:42:56.991 --> 00:43:00.828
were gone down by Creek Road,
somebody picked them up.

00:43:01.745 --> 00:43:05.207
And personally, I think he picked them up.

00:43:06.166 --> 00:43:11.170
And I think he did that just
to get some public sympathy

00:43:11.171 --> 00:43:12.338
and maybe to get some more funding

00:43:12.339 --> 00:43:13.923
from some of the bleeding
hearts out there,

00:43:13.924 --> 00:43:16.342
that he\'s got convinced that

00:43:16.343 --> 00:43:19.053
he\'s doing a great job in saving lives.

00:43:19.054 --> 00:43:24.059
I question how effective these
barrels really are out there.

00:43:27.896 --> 00:43:30.356
(thunder storming)

00:43:30.357 --> 00:43:33.318
An illegal alien crosser is
an illegal alien crosser.

00:43:33.319 --> 00:43:35.112
It\'s black and white, it\'s not gray.

00:43:36.822 --> 00:43:39.908
(car engine roaring)

00:43:48.959 --> 00:43:51.795
(thunder roaring)

00:43:54.048 --> 00:43:57.134
(car engine roaring)

00:44:00.346 --> 00:44:03.473
(Radio calling)

00:44:03.474 --> 00:44:05.726
- [Radio Call] Eight-sixty,
did you want the coordinates?

00:44:06.894 --> 00:44:08.771
- Yes, I copy, go ahead.

00:44:10.147 --> 00:44:10.981
- [Radio Call] Coordinates is going

00:44:10.982 --> 00:44:14.026
to be 27.15076 by -98.00134

00:44:18.656 --> 00:44:20.990
- I know they found two
here last week, right?

00:44:20.991 --> 00:44:22.326
- [Man] Yes ma\'am.
- Yeah.

00:44:24.620 --> 00:44:25.953
\'Cause I remember we had
heard they were looking

00:44:25.954 --> 00:44:28.331
for a young man, an 18 year old.

00:44:28.332 --> 00:44:29.917
But I don\'t know if this is him.

00:44:31.794 --> 00:44:33.504
- [Deputy Reyes] I\'m down to one body bag.

00:44:35.381 --> 00:44:39.385
I had several of them,
but I\'ve been using them.

00:44:40.552 --> 00:44:43.555
(crickets chirping)

00:44:46.558 --> 00:44:49.895
(footsteps approaching)

00:45:11.166 --> 00:45:13.419
(scraping)

00:45:16.588 --> 00:45:18.628
- He has something in his
pocket, my hand\'s too big.

00:45:19.425 --> 00:45:21.009
Paper or something, I don\'t know.

00:45:22.136 --> 00:45:25.681
(paper rustling)

00:45:26.056 --> 00:45:27.223
It\'s a love note.

00:45:27.224 --> 00:45:28.851
- [ICE Agent] It\'s a love note, okay?

00:45:32.521 --> 00:45:34.647
(radio calling)

00:45:34.648 --> 00:45:37.484
(birds chirping)

00:45:41.321 --> 00:45:45.408
- Juan Maceda Salazar.

00:45:45.409 --> 00:45:48.495
(soft music)

00:46:02.926 --> 00:46:07.347
(Border crosser speaking in Spanish)

00:46:40.297 --> 00:46:43.717
(indistinct chattering)

00:46:51.475 --> 00:46:55.896
(Juan\'s father speaking in Spanish)

00:47:21.880 --> 00:47:26.301
(Border crosser speaking in Spanish)

00:48:01.545 --> 00:48:03.713
(trees rustling in breeze)

00:48:03.714 --> 00:48:08.135
(Border crosser speaking in Spanish)

00:49:03.815 --> 00:49:06.902
(soft music)

00:49:13.742 --> 00:49:16.410
- This young man succumbed to dehydration.

00:49:16.411 --> 00:49:20.039
When the coyotes take them across,

00:49:20.040 --> 00:49:22.583
a lot of times they give
them a jug of water.

00:49:22.584 --> 00:49:24.126
And when those jugs are empty,

00:49:24.127 --> 00:49:27.046
they are filling them
up in the water troughs

00:49:27.047 --> 00:49:29.215
that are designed for the cattle.

00:49:29.216 --> 00:49:34.221
And that\'s not clean water,
it is contaminated with feces,

00:49:34.805 --> 00:49:38.641
with microbes, with other
things from the environment.

00:49:38.642 --> 00:49:41.644
So when they drink the
water, it makes them sick.

00:49:41.645 --> 00:49:43.145
And so the water, the bad water,

00:49:43.146 --> 00:49:46.273
is in essence leading to their death.

00:49:46.274 --> 00:49:48.944
(flies buzzing)

00:50:03.041 --> 00:50:04.417
- [Kate] Hey Eddie, it\'s Kate.

00:50:04.418 --> 00:50:05.584
- [Eddie] Yeah.

00:50:05.585 --> 00:50:07.962
- [Kate] I don\'t know if we
talked about the repatriation.

00:50:07.963 --> 00:50:10.047
I don\'t know if I told you what happened

00:50:10.048 --> 00:50:12.425
when his remains were sent back to Mexico.

00:50:12.426 --> 00:50:13.969
- No, what happened?

00:50:15.178 --> 00:50:18.431
- [Kate] So, the consulate
paid $2,000 for a casket

00:50:18.432 --> 00:50:20.808
and shipment back to Mexico.

00:50:20.809 --> 00:50:25.104
And we got a box from our
lab, we recycled a box,

00:50:25.105 --> 00:50:27.356
and we wrapped up the remains,
and we put them in there.

00:50:27.357 --> 00:50:30.609
The funeral home came and
picked up the remains.

00:50:30.610 --> 00:50:33.612
The funeral home never
provided the casket,

00:50:33.613 --> 00:50:36.407
and he was shipped back
to Mexico in the box

00:50:36.408 --> 00:50:39.035
from our lab, and was put on display

00:50:39.036 --> 00:50:41.872
for the mother in the same
box that he left the lab in.

00:50:44.875 --> 00:50:46.459
I\'m sure you can imagine how traumatic

00:50:46.460 --> 00:50:49.296
that was for the mother.
- Yeah.

00:50:50.380 --> 00:50:55.385
- [Kate] It\'s not okay, it\'s
not okay, it has to be changed.

00:50:59.639 --> 00:51:02.976
(truck engine roaring)

00:51:10.233 --> 00:51:13.987
(Coyote speaking in Spanish)

00:51:20.243 --> 00:51:23.830
(Omar speaking in Spanish)

00:51:38.136 --> 00:51:42.140
(Smuggler speaking in Spanish)

00:51:48.480 --> 00:51:51.566
(tense music)

00:52:04.871 --> 00:52:06.956
- There is a fence back over here.

00:52:06.957 --> 00:52:10.584
And then an antenna and
a shed, and the pumps,

00:52:10.585 --> 00:52:12.378
and then the windmill is
right behind the pumps there,

00:52:12.379 --> 00:52:14.797
but the spinner is off of it.

00:52:14.798 --> 00:52:19.301
So we thought, it has all
the landmarks, I don\'t know.

00:52:19.302 --> 00:52:20.137
- So we...

00:52:20.138 --> 00:52:22.722
- It talks about a road
that goes past it, so.

00:52:24.224 --> 00:52:27.059
- We go this way.
- Yeah.

00:52:27.060 --> 00:52:29.980
(footsteps moving)

00:52:39.030 --> 00:52:41.867
(leaves rustling)

00:53:33.376 --> 00:53:35.711
(metal squeaking)

00:53:35.712 --> 00:53:38.298
(bird crowing)

00:53:45.972 --> 00:53:48.808
(leaves rustling)

00:54:19.422 --> 00:54:22.509
(car engine roaring)

00:54:40.068 --> 00:54:43.238
(electronic drilling)

00:54:47.951 --> 00:54:51.037
(soft music)

00:55:29.868 --> 00:55:33.287
- There\'s a person inside
every one of these boxes.

00:55:33.288 --> 00:55:35.123
Everybody in here has a family,

00:55:38.251 --> 00:55:40.003
that wonders what happened to them.

00:56:11.951 --> 00:56:14.161
- [Omar] We found some remains

00:56:14.162 --> 00:56:15.662
when we were doing our search.

00:56:15.663 --> 00:56:17.624
But it\'s not Homero.

00:56:38.186 --> 00:56:39.813
(water pouring)

00:56:46.361 --> 00:56:48.988
(fire rattling)

00:57:02.377 --> 00:57:05.463
(soft music)

00:57:47.839 --> 00:57:50.550
(door squeaking)

00:58:03.188 --> 00:58:06.858
(Eddie speaking in Spanish)

00:58:16.618 --> 00:58:20.162
(soft music continues)

00:58:20.163 --> 00:58:23.124
(crickets chirping)