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- Here in South Texas,the increasing number

crossing the border, isn'tjust affecting law enforcement.

Local landowners must also deal daily

with uninvited gueststrespassing on their property.

- It just seems to begetting worse and worse.

- [Abigail] Justin Cappadonadescribed to CBN News,

his experience living in a border town.

- We've had groups comeup in into our backyard,

on the backside,

and approach us lookingfor food and water.

- [Abigail] And he says thegroups are getting bigger.

- [Justin] I've seen anywhere between 15

and as many as 30 peoplecome out of a vehicle.

- Many ranchers arealso experiencing damage

to their personal property.

Constantly repairing fences and gates

that are struck by vehiclesfleeing law enforcement.

And the property ownersare left footing the bill.

- Well, what ends uphappening, as you can see,

the vehicles will be coming down.

If they're being chased byborder patrol or sheriff or DPS,

what happens a lot of times,

is that at some point theydecide that they can't get away.

So they'll end up crashingthrough these, through the fence.

They usually take outa couple of posts here,

bring the fence down,

and then they'll get on acollecha roads such as this

and they'll continue on,

and then they'll go out into the ranch.

- [Abigail] A neighboring rancher,

who requested to remain anonymous,

tells CBN News,

the trespassing groupsare getting more frequent

and aggressive, armedwith high powered weapons,

and on their propertythey're finding everything

from drugs to dead bodies.

- Well, how do you fix it?

I don't know.

I think probably acombination of border wall

and immigration policies.

- [Abigail] In March,Governor Greg Abbott,

launched Operation Lone Star

deploying the Texas National Guard

and Department of Public Safety

to help improve air,ground, and marine security.

- What DPS is doing isabsolutely necessary.

The governor is right by tryingto do something down here.

But it has a ripple effectthat causes a negative impact

on our communities throughoutthe State of Texas.

- [Abigail] Sheriff Roy Boyd is

200 miles from the Rio Grande Valley

and his county still feelsthe problems at the border.

- In Goliad County iswe're having stash sites

that the cartel is usingto store illegal aliens,

to strip stolen trucks,to store and to move drugs

towards the larger market in Houston.

- [Abigail] But the resources

now addressing immigration issues

mean less law enforcementhelping local citizens.

- To be quite frank,the problem that we have

with all of the effortsthat we're doing right now,

is none of these effortsare actually designed

to win the war that we are facing

with our neighboring Country of Mexico

and the cartels that reside there.

- [Abigail] And the addedsecurity is expensive.

- Texas is spending $2.5 million a week

just with the highwaypatrol that's stationed here

at the border.

In addition to that, wehave the National Guard

who's here by order of the governor.

That's another roughly $2 million a week

that we're spending just inhelping secure the border.

- [Abigail] TexasCongressman Michael Cloud

recently led a group ofrepresentatives to the border

to see the crisis firsthand.

- Just a few months ago,

this crisis point wasmitigated as a crisis.

You're always gonna havea little bit of tension

at the border, but the overwhelming crisis

that we're seeing now did not exist

because of the policiesthat were put in place

by the Trump administration.

- [Abigail] He warns thisisn't just Texas's problem.

- Now the Biden solutionto the surge at the border

has been to transporteveryone throughout the U.S.

So this issue that we've knownhere in Texas for a while

has been exacerbated, butnow it's being transported

throughout communities throughout Texas.

So it's been said that everytown is now a border town

and you can see how that's playing out.

- [Abigail] Cloud arguesthe answer is simple.

Return to policies that worked

and finished Trump's border wall.

Reporting from McAllen, Texas,Abigail Robertson, CBN News