Reneé Jackson-Armendariz is a Summer 2021 intern with the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Right on Immigration campaign. She was born and raised in El Paso, Texas amongst her family made up of Mexican immigrants and first-generation Americans. Renee became passionate about immigration policy through her family’s immigration stories as well as her dad being a.
Annual Migrant Deaths in Texas County 80 Miles from Border Jumps to 26
6 May 2021
The deaths of migrants in one Texas county located 80 miles north of the Mexican border continues to rise at an alarming rate. During the first four months of 2021, Brooks County Sheriff’s Office deputies recovered the bodies or remains of 26 deceased migrants. This compares to 34 deaths for all of 2020.
In March, Brooks County Sheriff Benny Martinez told Breitbart Texas he expected the number of deaths to rise because of increasing temperatures and the larger number of migrants being smuggled through the county. At that time, the Brooks County death toll stood at 18. That number currently stands at 26 as of April 30, reports from the sheriff’s office reveal.