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===Measures to help the illegal migrants=== * South Texas Human Rights, based in Brooks County, operates a hotline to answer calls about missing persons.<ref name=Brutal/><ref>{{cite news |title=The other Death Valley: hundreds of migrants are dying in remote Texas deserts. Border patrol agents search for the remains of a deceased migrant on a ranch in Brooks county, Texas. |first=Peter |last=Yeung |date=August 19, 2022 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/19/migrant-deaths-border-crossing-texas-mexico-extreme-heat}}</ref> * Humanitarian groups have set up water stations and emergency beacons on some Brooks County ranches.<ref name=Brutal/> Doing so is illegal, and the Border Patrol sometimes arrests offenders, but jurors in Arizona refused to convict a defendant tried for the same crime.<ref>{{cite news |title=Eight activists helping migrants cross brutal desert charged by US government. Charges fuel fears of Trump crackdown after Arizona-based group accused border patrol agents of sabotaging water containers |first=Rory |last=Carroll |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/24/us-immigration-activists-arizona-no-more-deaths-charged |date=January 24, 2018 |access-date=December 3, 2021 |archive-date=November 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124170701/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/24/us-immigration-activists-arizona-no-more-deaths-charged |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Jurors refuse to convict activist facing 20 years for helping migrants. Jury could not reach a verdict against Scott Daniel Warren who was arrested in 2018 for giving migrants water, food and lodging |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=June 12, 2019 |author=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/11/arizona-activist-migrant-water-scott-daniel-warren-verdict |access-date=December 3, 2021 |archive-date=December 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203082739/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/11/arizona-activist-migrant-water-scott-daniel-warren-verdict |url-status=live }}</ref> Consequently, not all ranchers allow the water stations on their property. Those that do, reduce the likelihood that their property will have dead bodies. * The water stations and signs in the fields have their geographical coordinates, so migrants calling for help can tell rescuers where they are. * Due to property damage, some ranchers have stopped using fencing or placed ladders so the migrants can climb over the fences without damaging them.<ref>{{cite news |title=South Texas rancher tours desolate brush country where he often sees migrants in distress. John David Franz shows where son found human remains, others hiding and lost |first=Sandra |last=Sanchez |date=May 1, 2019 |url=https://www.borderreport.com/hot-topics/border-crime/brooks-county-rancher-gives-tour-of-desolate-south-texas-brush-country-where-he-often-sees-migrants/ |newspaper=[[Border Report]] |access-date=December 1, 2021 |archive-date=December 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201162225/https://www.borderreport.com/hot-topics/border-crime/brooks-county-rancher-gives-tour-of-desolate-south-texas-brush-country-where-he-often-sees-migrants/ |url-status=live }}</ref> One rancher, however, electrified his fencing with a 220-volt electric line.<ref name="Brutal" /> * Forrest Wilder, editor of the [[Texas Observer]], has called for the Farfurrias Border Patrol Station to be moved to a less dangerous location.<ref>{{cite news |title=Border and immigration. To save lives, close the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint |first=Forrest |last=Wilder |date=May 20, 2015 |url=https://www.texasobserver.org/end-the-falfurrias-border-patrol-checkpoint/ |newspaper=[[Texas Observer]]}}</ref>
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