Santa Elena --- Elizabeth Burns owns a ranch in south Texas called Rancho Los Malulos where illegal immigrants or “pilgrims” as she decides to call them, cross on foot illegally into the U.S.A. Broken bottles, wrappers, and footprints are always normal discoveries every day. Burns takes action is conducting interviews on “pilgrims” who cross through her ranch, but still notifies Border Patrol agents about them. Drilling oil companies have long since been a part of the family’s business, therefore, the roads made by these oil companies provide a perfect route for smugglers, who blend in with the other traffic as they use their own trucks to transport drugs and people through the region. One day she encounters herself with a Honduran national and decides to interview him, she states, “He looked thin, weak and said he was hungry, Burns said. She gave him a Red Bull and some orange soda while they talked. The pilgrim testifies that he was kidnapped by organized crime members and was held for ransom for his release. Urbino Martinez, chief deputy of the Brooks County Sheriff’s Office, said in court documents that smugglers charge as much as $10,000 to move drugs or people through the property.
Source: http://www.themonitor.com/articles/wife-42874-pilgrims-camera.html
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