Normally we have NO WAY to call Border Patrol or anyone else until we return home to a landline, or get where a cell phone works which can be hours later. Cell phones do not work at all over large stretches of country along the border. I am 110 miles from the nearest city and my phone works for about 10 minutes of that trip. The usual scenerio is we are out checking cattle and see illegal activity. If the illegals are suffering heat stroke, snakebite or other emergency we help them same as we would help you if you were out here. If we don’t help them they will likely die before anyone else gets to them. That is a fact we all understand. When we return to the house and have a phone to use we call Border Patrol and let them know what and where we saw activity and contact we had with the illegals if any. If we are lucky we may see a Border Patrol to wave down and get help sooner. Most of the time you see BP everywhere until you need one and then there aren’t any. Murphy’s law or whatever.
I know it seems to many of you that those of us that live here do things that make no sense, but most of you have no understanding of what it really is like in the middle of nowhere. We do the best we can with what we have. It does not mean we are supporting illegal crossers or that we are liberals.
If someone hurts themselves while breaking into my home (trespassing), I'll call the cops first and foremost, especially since the perp is likely to want to cause me bodily harm, and its's not unlikely for illegals crossing the border to want to harm those in their way. jmo