Barrels of drinking water for migrants walking through Texas have disappeared

Barrels of life-saving water that a human rights group had strategically placed for wayward migrants traveling on foot had vanished. Summer temperatures can climb to 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) in Texas’ sparsely populated Jim Hogg County, with its vast, inhospitable ranchlands. “We don’t have the luxury of losing time in what we do,” said Ruben Garza’s, an investigator with the Jim Hogg Sheriff’s Office. But in other states along the southern border, missing water stations have been ascribed to spiteful intentions. The number of migrants crossing through South Texas and subsequent deaths decreased this year after President Joe Biden’s administration instituted new border polices.