The incident serves as a reminder that over the past two centuries, hundreds of migrants and Texans of Mexican descent have been murdered.

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Texas Monthly

The incident serves as a reminder that over the past two centuries, hundreds of migrants and Texans of Mexican descent have been murdered. 

By Bill Minutaglio

October 7, 2021

The tragedy, at first, seemed a familiar one in the ragged brushlands of South Texas. Border Patrol agents late last week spotted a badly decomposing body in a patch of trees on a ranch in Brooks County, about an hour north (Falfurrias) of McAllen and the Mexican border. Nearly one hundred other migrants’ bodies had been discovered in the county this year, but this one was hanging from a noose that had been fashioned from the remains of a shirt and was tied to a limb on a rugged old oak tree. His head lolled to one side, and his feet were missing, perhaps eaten by coyotes or other animals. Some clothing was found folded nearby. So were identification cards for a Mexican male.

Thursday, Brooks County sheriff’s deputies said they had made a positive identification of the body. They have contacted Mexican consular officials, but will not release the name of the man—described as being in his twenties—until family members in Mexico have been notified. Brooks County sheriff’s deputies are treating the case as a homicide investigation, while not ruling out the possibility of suicide, and are hoping witnesses will emerge.