Like so many others, he didn’t make it past ranch - Young Honduran quietly buried at Laredo cemetery

“Bubba O’Bannan smelled the body before he saw it inside a hunter’s blind, already badly decomposed after a few days in the summer heat.

The foreman called the Border Patrol, like he always does, and directed an agent to Daniel Mejia Murillo’s body on the sprawling Galvan ranch, thousands of acres of thorn scrub and honey mesquite north of Laredo. O’Bannan, who has kept watch over the ranch for more than five years, tries to save immigrants who are sick from the heat or dehydration, giving them water if he finds them in time.

“You do what you can,” he said. “We get tons coming through here, literally thousands.”"

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