“Ever since this dialogue from Washington began about the DREAM Act, and conversation about no internal enforcement, the numbers and the traffic has at least tripled,” said Mike Vickers, who operates a thousand acre ranch in Brooks County, southwest of Corpus Christi.
Despite an overall drop in illegal immigration nationwide, there has been a huge spike in the number of undocumented immigrants found dead in the south Texas brush country this year, and a disturbing number of the illegals found dead and alive attempting to sneak into the U.S.in the past three months have been young people.
1200 WOAI news reports some who deal with illegal immigration blame the DREAM Act, and talk that young people in the United States illegally may receive legal residency or even a path to citizenship in a second Obama term.
“Ever since this dialogue from Washington began about the DREAM Act, and conversation about no internal enforcement, the numbers and the traffic has at least tripled,” said Mike Vickers, who operates a thousand acre ranch in Brooks County, southwest of Corpus Christi.
Brooks County is a good barometer of illegal entry into the U.S., because the main Border Patrol station on US Highway 281, the main route north from the Rio Grande Valley into the United States, is in Falfurrias, and many immigrant smugglers head off the road and attempt to cross through the rugged brush country to avoid the checkpoint.
“The number of juveniles apprehended here were over fifty, approaching sixty, just in the month of August,” Vickers said.
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