A backpack allegedly abandoned by an undocumented migrant, lies on the ground by the remains of deer antlers near Interstate 10 in Van Horn, Texas in Culberson County on Monday, June 28, 2021.
Orange peels lie on the ground in Jeff Davis County. Culberson County Sheriff Oscar Carrillo said he received a distress call from a rancher using a satellite phone on June 21. The rancher had found two migrants in the desert: Raul, 35, and his son Christian, 15.
Culberson County Sheriff Oscar Carrillo stands by the spot where the body of 15-year-old Christian was found on June 21, 2021.
Culberson County Sheriff Oscar Carrillo shows a photo of one of his deputies responding to a distress call from a rancher, who using a satellite phone on June 21st, found two migrants in the desert of Texas on Chispa Road in Jeff Davis County. Raul, 35, and his son Christian, 15, both from Ecuador, were crossing the border from Mexico to the U.S. when they got lost after their smuggler abandoned them. Upon deputies' arrival at the scene, Raul was showing signs of severe dehydration, but his son Christian was already deceased.
The Needle Peak mountain, “Loma La Aguja” in Spanish, located near Chispa Road in Culberson County on Thursday, June 24, 2021. This is a popular area used by undocumented migrants who travel by foot from Mexico to the United States through the West Texas desert.
Culberson County Chief Deputy Joseph Corrales speaks through the radio dispatch unit in his truck as he drives through the mountains where undocumented migrants usually walk after crossing the border from Mexico to the United States, through Culberson County on Thursday, June 24, 2021.
Several gloves for cold weather hung hooked on barbed wires that separate farmland near Interstate 10 in Van Horn in Culberson County on June 28, 2021
Culberson County Sheriff Oscar Carrillo shows photos of the work his office in Van Horn does answering calls involving unauthorized immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States through his county.
Culberson County Chief Deputy Joseph Corrales shows a photo of the body of an undocumented migrant found in the Texas desert within the vicinity of Culberson County in Van Horn, Texas on Wednesday, June 30, 2021.
A border patrol truck with long range thermal imaging cameras for border security parked at the location of Prada Marfa, a permanent sculptural art installation by artists Elmgreen and Dragset, located 1.4 miles northwest of Valentine, Texas, just off the U.S. Highway 90 on Wednesday, June 30, 2021.
