Texas Ranchers: Don't Blame Us for Illegals Dying on Our Land

During one of the early morning patrols Jeff L. spotted a

 barely alive woman lying up against a fence post. She said

she was traveling with a group of eight from Mexico when  

she lost them in the dark of the night. LINK ...

Landowners in Brooks County, Texas are angry over being blamed for the number of illegal migrants coming onto their ranches and dying, saying it's not their fault that the deaths are occurring.

"We just think the landowner shouldn't take the blame on this," Susan Kibbe, director of the Texas Property Rights Association, which represents the landowners, told Rio Grande Valley ABC affiliate KRGV.

... This one wasn't so lucky!

"Somehow the U.S. is blamed for their deaths, or ranchers are blamed on their deaths, or others are blamed for their deaths," she said. "When they know when they come into this country illegally, they're taking this chance."

So far 41 dead immigrants' bodies have been found in Brooks County, which lies about 70 miles north of the border. Many smugglers who make it as far as the Falfurrias Checkpoint in Brooks County drop off their illegal human cargo before they get to the checkpoint, leaving them there to fend for themselves in a part of Texas where temperatures often reach 100 degrees, and where there is little shade.

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