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FALFURRIAS - CHANNEL 5 NEWS is taking you to the other front line of the border battle. It's no where near the river. It's sixty miles north of McAllen. People here are grabbing guns to protect themselves. Ranchers blame this border patrol checkpoint. Illegal immigrants know if they come through, they'll get caught, so smugglers are dropping them off and leaving them to roam on ranchers' land. Rancher Dr. Mike Vickers believes, "It's real threat to our state and our country." He feels like his land is under siege. "We call them criminal trespassers or Ct's because essentially, that's what...

Operation Nueces Strip is wrapping up along the Texas-Mexico border. It was a month-long drill by The Minutemen Group to patrol for illegal immigrants and report them to the feds. Hundreds of volunteers came from all over the country to take part. Only on KXAN NBC Austin, Rich Parsons takes you along on a mission. The old cowboy songs Dave Summers sings in camp on a ranch just outside Falfurrias are a midday break from his midnight missions searching for illegal aliens pouring into south Texas by the thousands. "We're responding to the government's call for citizens to be vigilant,"...