Five sweltering months have passed since the John G. and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation rid the ranch of federal agents. The Border Patrol set fires, broke electronic fences and violated the human rights of immigrants, the Catholic foundation said then. The heat is turning the pastures to powder this summer - and the Kenedy foundation has agreed to let the Border Patrol return.
Negotiations continue between the two groups.
Kenedy County Sheriff Rafael Cuellar Jr. When the agents were banished, he was left alone with the hot, dirty and often gruesome task of patrolling some 235,000 acres of scrubby pastures. I need help out here. This is a big ranch, a lot of desert. The disputed Kenedy turf has long been a popular, perilous thoroughfare for illegal immigrants. The land circles a Border Patrol roadblock, where agents stop and question northbound drivers.