National Public Radio's John Burnett also reports from Starr County where he captures the ambivalence of local residents to the law enforcement surge at the border.
ROSALINA MUNOZ: We don't have no mining or no oil wells. We got nothing, none of that, you know, here. But we got them, and they bring us business.
BURNETT: Her son, Clyde Guerra, manages the Denny's in Rio Grande City and serves on the local school board. He says the hungry troopers have boosted his margins 30 to 40 percent. But the high-intensity policing wears on him, too. His pickup truck was recently pulled over because a trooper said his license plate light was out.
CLYDE GUERRA: Sometimes you get upset. I do (laughter) because I got stopped one night - eight cars surrounded my truck, OK? So sometimes I feel they overreact.
ROSALINA MUNOZ: We don't have no mining or no oil wells. We got nothing, none of that, you know, here. But we got them, and they bring us business.
BURNETT: Her son, Clyde Guerra, manages the Denny's in Rio Grande City and serves on the local school board. He says the hungry troopers have boosted his margins 30 to 40 percent. But the high-intensity policing wears on him, too. His pickup truck was recently pulled over because a trooper said his license plate light was out.
CLYDE GUERRA: Sometimes you get upset. I do (laughter) because I got stopped one night - eight cars surrounded my truck, OK? So sometimes I feel they overreact.