
As the United States debates border security and expanding a border wall, we go to Brooks County, Texas, where more people are dying trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border than ever before. This is the story of what happened to one missing person—a single mother from Honduras who made it 2 miles from Mexico into Texas before she was detained by Border Patrol. Her story stretches from her home in Honduras to a maximum-security jail in Texas.
Border Patrol agents are now claiming that they are overwhelmed by the number of migrant deaths in Brooks County, Texas, an area of the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of bodies have already been found. We speak with a senior associate at the Women’s Refugee Commission, about what exactly is happening. We also speak with filmmaker Lisa Molomot, co-director of the new documentary “Missing in Brooks County,” which follows the story of two families searching for lost loved ones who went missing there after crossing the border.