WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:46.5200000" NOTE recognizability:0.859 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.8817657 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.655 Now to migrant crossings along NOTE Confidence: 0.8817657 00:00:01.655 --> 00:00:02.979 the Texas Mexico border. NOTE Confidence: 0.8817657 00:00:02.980 --> 00:00:05.108 Border Patrol says the Eagle Pass area NOTE Confidence: 0.8817657 00:00:05.108 --> 00:00:07.320 is feeling the major strain of an NOTE Confidence: 0.8817657 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:09.180 influx of large groups of migrants. NOTE Confidence: 0.8817657 00:00:09.180 --> 00:00:10.420 They're mostly entering EU NOTE Confidence: 0.8817657 00:00:10.420 --> 00:00:11.970 S in rural areas. Vanessa NOTE Confidence: 0.8817657 00:00:11.970 --> 00:00:14.140 Croix with the Kent 5 border team, NOTE Confidence: 0.8817657 00:00:14.140 --> 00:00:16.093 talked to a farm owner who said NOTE Confidence: 0.8817657 00:00:16.093 --> 00:00:18.015 most of those large groups are NOTE Confidence: 0.8817657 00:00:18.015 --> 00:00:19.720 showing up in her backyard. NOTE Confidence: 0.8818545 00:00:22.290 --> 00:00:24.402 This land owner said it's happening NOTE Confidence: 0.8818545 00:00:24.402 --> 00:00:27.129 at all hours of the day and night. NOTE Confidence: 0.8818545 00:00:27.130 --> 00:00:28.362 Large groups of migrants, NOTE Confidence: 0.8818545 00:00:28.362 --> 00:00:30.666 some over 100 trekking across her crops NOTE Confidence: 0.8818545 00:00:30.666 --> 00:00:32.666 and threatening her family's livelihood. NOTE Confidence: 0.8818545 00:00:32.670 --> 00:00:34.824 But she said, it's the uncertainty NOTE Confidence: 0.8818545 00:00:34.824 --> 00:00:36.973 of who's hiding among these large NOTE Confidence: 0.8818545 00:00:36.973 --> 00:00:38.899 groups that has her on edge. NOTE Confidence: 0.8818545 00:00:38.900 --> 00:00:39.938 These people just NOTE Confidence: 0.8818545 00:00:39.940 --> 00:00:42.010 came over this morning from Mexico. NOTE Confidence: 0.8818545 00:00:42.010 --> 00:00:45.124 They crossed through our farm in the last few NOTE Confidence: 0.8818545 00:00:45.130 --> 00:00:47.164 months. Katie Hobbs said her Maverick NOTE Confidence: 0.8818545 00:00:47.164 --> 00:00:49.620 County farm has been Ground Zero. They're NOTE Confidence: 0.8818545 00:00:49.620 --> 00:00:51.700 streaming in from the river. Large NOTE Confidence: 0.8818545 00:00:51.700 --> 00:00:52.738 groups of migrants. NOTE Confidence: 0.84572 00:00:52.900 --> 00:00:54.460 We had another 60 this NOTE Confidence: 0.84572 00:00:54.460 --> 00:00:55.708 morning night before last. NOTE Confidence: 0.84572 00:00:55.710 --> 00:00:57.034 There was another hundred NOTE Confidence: 0.84572 00:00:57.034 --> 00:00:59.363 and some odd and then we had NOTE Confidence: 0.84572 00:00:59.363 --> 00:01:01.007 another 150 or 60 the day NOTE Confidence: 0.84572 00:01:01.010 --> 00:01:02.720 before that using her property NOTE Confidence: 0.84572 00:01:02.720 --> 00:01:04.759 as a gateway to enter EU S NOTE Confidence: 0.84572 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:06.626 at any time of the day. NOTE Confidence: 0.84572 00:01:06.630 --> 00:01:08.190 It could happen or night NOTE Confidence: 0.84572 00:01:08.190 --> 00:01:09.219 Del Rio sector. NOTE Confidence: 0.84572 00:01:09.219 --> 00:01:11.277 Border Patrol officials said the Eagle NOTE Confidence: 0.84572 00:01:11.277 --> 00:01:13.396 Pass area is the new hot spot for NOTE Confidence: 0.84572 00:01:13.396 --> 00:01:15.358 a major spike in migrant activity. NOTE Confidence: 0.84572 00:01:15.360 --> 00:01:17.238 Look at this over three days. NOTE Confidence: 0.84572 00:01:17.240 --> 00:01:18.680 Last weekend, agents encountered NOTE Confidence: 0.84572 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:20.840 over 3500 migrants across the Del NOTE Confidence: 0.84572 00:01:20.901 --> 00:01:22.539 Rio sector and I would say the NOTE Confidence: 0.84572 00:01:22.540 --> 00:01:24.100 vast majority of those were NOTE Confidence: 0.84572 00:01:24.100 --> 00:01:25.348 coming through our farm. NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:26.030 --> 00:01:27.722 Hobbs and her husband grow onions NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:27.722 --> 00:01:29.463 and melons at their farm that NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:29.463 --> 00:01:31.125 runs more than seven miles along NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:31.125 --> 00:01:32.770 the Texas Mexico border. They NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:32.770 --> 00:01:34.235 only need to come through NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:34.235 --> 00:01:35.700 about 5 feet of cane, NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:35.700 --> 00:01:37.160 and then it's Christine Farm. NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:37.160 --> 00:01:38.039 Beautiful nice roads. NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:38.039 --> 00:01:40.090 The whole 9 yards they just walk NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:40.090 --> 00:01:41.917 on in. We first met Hobbs at NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:41.917 --> 00:01:43.737 her farm earlier this year when NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:43.737 --> 00:01:45.367 she made a shocking discovery. NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:45.370 --> 00:01:47.128 Look at this five little girls, NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:47.130 --> 00:01:48.900 abandoned, damped out on the side NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:48.900 --> 00:01:50.991 of the river here on our farm NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:50.991 --> 00:01:52.689 and left to fend for themselves. NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:52.690 --> 00:01:53.862 There's lots more coming, NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:53.862 --> 00:01:55.365 and now, Haab said, the. NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:55.365 --> 00:01:56.890 Impact of these large groups. NOTE Confidence: 0.86600816 00:01:56.890 --> 00:01:58.038 We have a lot NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:00.576 of anxiety about the future of farming down NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:02:00.576 --> 00:02:02.662 here could be a threat to their livelihood. NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:02:02.662 --> 00:02:04.690 They've been plotting over our onion fields, NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:02:04.690 --> 00:02:06.994 which are just now starting to come up. NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:09.032 My husband, 75 and not in the best NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:02:09.032 --> 00:02:11.048 health he was down there yesterday, NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:02:11.050 --> 00:02:13.066 hurting him out of the field and NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:02:13.070 --> 00:02:14.798 the uncertainty. A threat to her NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:02:14.798 --> 00:02:16.540 family safety. It's it's just it. NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:02:16.540 --> 00:02:17.975 Always send back your mind NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:02:17.975 --> 00:02:19.123 is someone coming through NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:02:19.123 --> 00:02:20.577 your backyard all the time. NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:02:20.580 --> 00:02:22.610 You don't know who these people are, NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:02:22.610 --> 00:02:23.758 you know anything about NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:02:23.760 --> 00:02:25.500 them over the last few months, NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:02:25.500 --> 00:02:27.070 Del Rio sector officials said NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:02:27.070 --> 00:02:28.326 they've arrested convicted felons. NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:02:28.330 --> 00:02:29.965 Sex offenders and MS13 gang NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:02:29.965 --> 00:02:31.600 members and found weapons left NOTE Confidence: 0.859101 00:02:31.658 --> 00:02:33.529 along the river. This is lies NOTE Confidence: 0.7892113 00:02:33.530 --> 00:02:34.505 in open borders. NOTE Confidence: 0.7892113 00:02:34.505 --> 00:02:36.130 There's really nowhere to go. NOTE Confidence: 0.7892113 00:02:36.130 --> 00:02:38.080 I mean, this is our home, NOTE Confidence: 0.7892113 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:40.036 we're old. I mean, we, we, NOTE Confidence: 0.7892113 00:02:40.036 --> 00:02:41.992 what do you do when you've NOTE Confidence: 0.7892113 00:02:41.992 --> 00:02:43.280 got everything invested here NOTE Confidence: 0.7892113 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:45.080 with the KENS 5 border NOTE Confidence: 0.7892113 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:46.520 team I'm Vanessa Croix.