-It's a nightmare.
-This is not being blown out of proportion.
-Those of us who live on the border, this is not news.
This is standard operating procedure all day, every day.
-Pick a spot along the US-Mexico border
in Eagle Pass, Texas, and in a matter of minutes,
you'll understand the gravity of the immigration situation.
-De dónde eres? -Venezuela.
-Venezuela? -Looks like single males.
-So, what you got here is, like, a mother and a father
with their three children.
-Tuesday, Marc Garcia, a retired Border Patrol agent
and longtime border resident,
drove from place to place along the Rio Grande,
and everywhere he stopped, migrants were arriving.
-We've been here twice, and we've seen two groups.
A little bit bigger this time.
[engine revving]
-Garcia, like so many who live here,
is fed up with resources being diverted away from residents
and towards the situation on the river.
-Everybody that would be able to help you in a situation
where you needed them to come and respond to your house,
all of those law-enforcement people
are busy doing the Border Patrol stuff.
They're apprehending, they're detaining.
Right now, we have National Guard.
-Right now, it's open border.
-Tom Schmerber is sheriff of Maverick County,
a sparsely populated but massive county
that is larger than the state of Rhode Island.
Schmerber typically has between three and five deputies
on the road per shift to cover that area,
which includes 70 miles of border.
-That's my worst fear,
is that not everybody is crossing
for something good, to come to work,
to do a better life.
Some are taking advantage of it. And we have a nice, safe county.
And I don't want -- I don't want it to get ruined
by people that we don't know
or might stay here and make it worse.
-The sheriff says he simply does not have enough people
to keep the community safe.
-So now we're working two jobs, you know?
And it's getting worse. Now we have -- Excuse me.
Now we have smugglers in vehicles.
Smugglers with vehicles. We're chasing vehicles.
We have accidents, people dying.
-And that's exactly what happened here.
Rogelio Tapia is repairing a fence
on the ranch he works for.
-When they follow him, they just go straight.
And then they jump out of the cars,
and they start running everywhere.
So that's the problem.
-A problem he is now dealing with almost constantly.
How often does this happen?
-Almost every day.
-It might be hard to navigate all of the politics
around Title 42, but it's easy to understand
why there is a flood of immigrants coming.
Watch the emotion as this family set foot on dry land.
-[sobbing]
[speaking Spanish]
[sobbing]
[speaking Spanish]
[sobbing]
[speaking Spanish]
-[speaking Spanish] Why did we cross?
Because my daughters are in danger
in Colombia.
We are scared to be there.
We came here so you could help us
get a better future.
I don't want my daughters to disappear.
-[speaking Spanish] In our country Colombia,
they were trying to recruit our
oldest daughter into the ELN Guerillas.
They threatened us with death.
We can not send her to school.
My wife can't work because of the girls.
-The question here in Eagle Pass isn't whether
the end of Title 42 will have an impact or not.
It's simply how much of an impact that will be.
-This is not about politics.
This has everything to do with the security
and the safety of the American people.
-We're not prepared. I don't think so.
I don't think so. I don't -- I don't know
where we're going to put all these people.
-This, in a week, is going to be --
it's going to be like Disneyland.
Have you seen -- Have you seen the opening to Disneyland
when people are just flooding through the gates?
That's what this is going to look like.