Photos: Immigration crisis in Texas’ Brooks County
Deputies Domingo Aguirre, left, and Daniel Zamarripa, stand outside an abandoned trailer used by migrants for shelter on their journey north through Texas’ Brooks County. (Michael Robinson Chavez/ Los Angeles Times)
Eddie Canales refills a barrel filled with jugs of water. Canales, an organizer with the South Texas Human Rights Center, maintains the barrels along routes used by migrants making their way through Texas’ Brooks County. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
Deputy Daniel Zamarripa, right, a reserve deputy for the Brooks County Sheriff’s Office in Texas, says the uniform landscape can make it easy for migrants heading north to get lost. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
Daniel Zamarripa, a reserve deputy for the Brooks County Sheriff’s Office in Texas, checks out an abandoned machine shop outside Falfurrias. Empty water bottles and a torn mattress showed migrants had taken shelter there. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
Brooks County deputies Daniel Zamarripa, right, and his partner Domingo Aguirre patrol an area outside Falfurrias where immigrants often hide and seek shelter. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
Eddie Canales prepares a water station for undocumented immigrants walking through the scrub of Brooks County, Texas. Canales maintains 35 barrels on the region’s vast ranches. He hopes to have 60 by summer’s end. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
