Alexis Ramanjulu is KGUN 9's Cochise County reporter. Send your story ideas to Alexis at [email protected].
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY , Ariz. — For more than two decades, Jim Chilton and his wife Sue have owned a ranch that sits just north of the U.S.-Mexico border, but he can’t name a time where he’s seen more people crossing onto his property.
Jim says barriers on roughly 2.5 miles of the shared border is easy to crawl under or climb over for people looking to enter the country, since the wall was never finished. “Three people that I know of died on our ranch in 2023 and it’s horrible," he said."One of our cowboys was riding along and found a body. We’re looking for cows not bodies.”
KGUN 9 spent the day with Jim where we saw what he's been talking about for years— migrants walking up to the boundary and climbing over, and crawling under the smaller boundary.The pair walked past us and headed west toward Sasabe, the closest Border Patrol station to the Chiltons' ranch.We drove the road the pair was walking. It was a dirt road with steep hills and blankets and clothing lining the path.He says he’s seen hundreds of people making 25-mile walk to Sasabe.
He chooses to treat the trespassers with kindness, whether it's with the 29 drinking fountains he’s set up throughout his property, giving those he encounters snacks or telling them where to go.“I’ve had about 35 people die on my ranch and it’s really horrible," Jim said."Even if drug packers come across my ranch, I just don’t want them dying.
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