Inside An Illegal Immigrant Hideout On The Southern Border
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Inside An Illegal Immigrant Hideout On The Southern Border

Spencer Lindquist

Less than 1,000 people call Texas’ Terrell County home. Located in the Border Patrol’s Big Bend Sector, the county’s outer edge traces along the Rio Grande and can only be reached by traversing winding roads on private property.

You have to watch your step on the cliffs that tower over the chasm carved by the river, not just to dodge cactus or prevent a fatal slip, but in hopes of catching a glimpse of one of the many shell fossils that time has stamped into the rock.

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