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Brooks County is a county in Texas, United States, and Falfurrias is its county seat. [1] Its population was 7,076, approximately 88% Latino per the 2020 census. [2]
Missing in Brooks County is a 2020 feature-length documentary (1 hr 21 m), directed and filmed by Lisa Molomot and Jeff Bemiss. Its subject is the passage of illegal migrants through Brooks County, Texas, and specifically how thousands die of dehydration and exposure hiking some 35 miles (56 km) across open fields in 100 °F (38 °C) heat, to avoid the Border Patrol internal checkpoint near ...
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Falfurrias (/ f æ l ˈ f jʊər i ə s / fal-FURE-ee-əss) is a city in and the county seat of Brooks County, Texas, United States. [5] Its population was 4,609 at the 2020 census, in a county that in the same census was just over 7,000. [2] The town is named for founder Edward Cunningham Lasater's ranch, La Mota de Falfurrias.
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The Paisano Grant was one of twenty-five land grants made in the Brooks County/Jim Wells County area of South Texas by the Spanish and Mexican governments between 1797 and 1835. The San Salvador del Tule Grant was the earliest on November 8, 1797, given to Juan Jose Balli. [ 1 ]
Encino (/ ɛ n ˈ s iː n oʊ / en-SEE-noh) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Brooks County, Texas, United States. It is 18 miles (29 km) south of the county seat of Falfurrias. The population was 109 at the 2020 census. It is the site of a United States Border Patrol interior checkpoint.
Brooks County Courthouse is located in Falfurrias, in the U.S. state of Texas. The structure was designed by Alfred Giles in 1914 in the Classic revival style. Prior to the erection of the brick county courthouse, local government housed itself in rented space. The courthouse was named a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1977. [3]