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Parents of Slain ICE Agent Talk About Dealing with Son's Death
Posted 8:50 AM 2/17/2012
BROWNSVILLE - ICE Special Agent Jaime Zapata is never far from his parents' thoughts. The Zapata family sat down with CHANNEL 5 NEWS to talk about their son. One year ago, their son was killed in (More)
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Family Paid $240,000 for Burial Mix-Up
Posted 12:49 AM 2/17/2012
WESLACO - The city of Weslaco and an insurance company have agreed to pay a Rio Grande Valley family $240,000 for a burial mix-up. CHANNEL 5 NEWS has spent the past year asking questions about (More)
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Family of Slain ICE Special Agent Fighting For Answers
Posted 12:17 AM 2/17/2012
BROWNSVILLE - The family of ICE Special Agent Jaime Zapata is fighting for the details surrounding his death. They want to know how the guns that killed him made it into Mexico and what the agents (More)
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Brownsville Murder Suspect On The Run
Posted 10:26 PM 2/12/2012
BROWNSVILLE - Police are still looking for a suspect in an overnight homicide. They say the incident happened in the parking lot of the Upside Down Bar at the 500 block of Springmart Street early (More)
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The Journey: The Boy In The Box
Posted 11:00 PM 2/9/2012
WACO - Untold numbers of immigrants cross the border in the Valley. They can face the dangers of the searing summer heat or the unknown water of the Rio Grande. Some won't make it out of South (More)
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The Journey: Searching For Immigrants in Trouble
Posted 10:58 PM 2/9/2012
NEAR FALFURRIAS - Under the hot South Texas sun, time is of the essence. Border Patrol agent Joe Puebla knows he has only so long to catch illegal immigrants moving through the brush before they (More)
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The Journey: The Deadly End
Posted 10:51 PM 2/8/2012
LAREDO - A journey to America for border crossers begins with a dream and sometimes ends with death. The bodies of crossers are found on the ranches along the river.
One man found August 11 (More)
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The Journey: Immigrant Autopsy
Posted 10:11 PM 2/8/2012
WEBB COUNTY - The journeys of hundreds of border crossers ends when they die in the brush, along the river or in the ranches in South Texas. Somebody has to find them and identify them.
Dr. (More)
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The Journey: Identifying Illegal Immigrants
Posted 8:41 PM 2/7/2012
FALFURRIAS - Dozens of illegal immigrants have lost their lives in the brush of Brooks County. CHANNEL 5 NEWS learned it could take weeks, sometimes months, for bodies to be buried.
Many of (More)
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The Journey: Brooks County Cemetery
Posted 9:10 PM 2/7/2012
BROOKS COUNTY - For many illegal immigrants entering the U.S., the journey ends in Brooks County. A special section of the Brooks County cemetery includes their graves.
The section has (More)
