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Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains Act provides funding to Coastal Bend counties facing immigration issues In 2020, there were some 35 bodies found in Brooks County alone, bringing the total to around 800 remains found over the past 10 years. Author: Michael Gibson (KIII) Updated: 6:57 PM CST February 1, 2021 TEXAS, USA Brooks, Duval and Kenedy County are soon going to get some financial relief thanks to a new law that Congressman Vicente Gonzalez helped get enacted. The law will reimburse counties for the cost associated with immigrant bodies discovered in South Texas.  The remains of immigrants have turned up around Brooks County for as long as anyone can remember. The county sits in some of the hottest and driest stretches of the Wild Horse Desert, or as some people call it, The Desert of the Dead.  

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