“There’s definitely a percentage of folks who believed that they can beat the clock,” said Jose Villareal, chief of operations for the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley sector. “This is ground zero of the problem,” Rodriguez said of the route known as Farm to Market Road 1419 in Cameron County. Expand / Contract Shown here is one of the gaps in the border barrier in Cameron County near Brownsville, Texas. Of the 315 miles of border in the Rio Grande Valley, only 54 miles have a border fence. As the son of Mexican migrant workers who crossed the border illegally decades ago – they later became naturalized citizens – Rodriguez believes talk of the border wall is Washington window-dressing for a more complicated problem.

Source: Fox News January 12, 2017 18:45 UTC