More asylum seekers are being picked up by
border patrol after crossing the border from Mexico
into San Diego.
This is new video from
Cuba Hot Springs. Today,
these migrants were eventually processed by border patrol.
County supervisor,
Jim Desmond says it's happening so much now that he's calling San Diego
the new epicenter for the nation's border crisis.
Last week alone,
border patrol apprehended more than 9000 people within the San Diego sector.
Now,
a group of veterans is taking matters into their own
hands by installing razor wire at the border with Mexico.
They call themselves the border vets.
Their mission is to prevent illegal crossings. CBS.
A's David Gottfredson followed them to the border area in
Numba to check out the operation.
I'm standing in America right now
and now
I'm standing in Mexico.
Kate Monroe started giving media tours of the border back
in February when she was still running for Congress,
the American Patriots.
I'd like to call us the border vets.
She got a ton of publicity with a group,
she calls border vets Monroe herself says she is a former US Marine.
This is about protecting our nation. We've already let terrorists and drugs.
The drug cartels have control of the border sex trafficking, drug trafficking.
News cameras follow Monroe to the Mexican border to videotape the border
vets installing their own razor wire across holes in the border wall.
Our plan is to get two or three rows here
so that there's actually some effective deterrent
Monroe. And another veteran named Brett Christiansen took us to
the border in
Jamba an hour east of San Diego where some of the
razor wire installed earlier by border vets was still in place.
This is your razor wire right here.
In other areas along the border, the razor wire had been pushed aside
and Christiansen was able to easily cross into Mexico.
That's where Christiansen started picking up paperwork he says was
left by migrants on the Mexican side of the wall.
Let me ask you something. Yes, sir.
Your whole mission seems to be to keep people from illegally crossing the border,
but you just illegally crossed the border into Mexico,
right? But what's the difference now?
Well,
I mean, isn't it ironic that you're doing the same thing you're trying to prevent?
No,
I'm trying right now to collect some evidence of
what's going on to see what the problems are
about. A mile away.
We ran into a group of migrants who had just crossed the border on foot,
some of them through the same hole that the border vets had tried to secure.
This is every single day.
They wait here by the side of the freeway for hours
and sometimes days so they can surrender to border patrol agents.
CBS eight photojournalist Jay Erdman was able to
translate as we spoke to Jessica Salazar,
a migrant from Colombia.
They saw dead people through the daring gap.
Her journey started a month and a half
ago crossing the treacherous jungles of Central America,
Colombia,
four kids. I left them all in Colombia.
We also met a dentist from Turkey. I hope for future three people.
Well, that's my job. I am a doctor. So I help treat people, make people good.
And we spoke to families with young Children waiting
for a chance to claim asylum in the United States
are these the type of people that you're trying to prevent from crossing the border.
So
the type of people that we're trying to prevent from crossing the
border illegally is every type of person because they're doing it illegally.
The young woman that you interviewed earlier from Colombia,
while her story is sad that she's here. The story that got her here is also sad
the way in which we force people to come because we are unwilling to reform.
Immigration
causes all of this back at the border.
The razor wire installed by the border vets begged one final question.
Aren't you in effect breaking the law when you put razor
wire up on federal property and build your own wall?
Isn't that against
the federal government?
Is breaking the law by allowing the onslaught of migrants to
come into our country from countries all around the world.
We have people coming across that we have found that are on the terror watch list.
The truth be told this raise wire isn't really gonna
stop many people from crossing into the United States.
But the border vets say that doesn't matter to them.
They're gonna keep coming back and they're gonna keep
installing these barriers because they believe in what they're doing
in
Haka. David Gottfredson. CBS eight,
CBS eight reached out to customs and border protection and asked
whether civilians laying down razor wire on federal property is legal.
The agency released a statement telling CBS eight that immigration enforcement is
the responsibility of federal agents and it closely monitors reports of activity
that may interfere with law enforcement.
CBP strongly encourages citizens to call the
border patrol if they witness illegal activity.