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x Gov. Greg Abbott wants to build a border wall. South Texas landowners are divided over whether they want it. 14 hours 40 minutes 49 seconds ago Thursday, July 01 2021 Jul 1, 2021 July 01, 2021 8:59 AM July 01, 2021 in News - Local Source: https://www.texastribune.org/ Share: Gerardo Vargas stands on a cliff overlooking the Rio Grande on his property in Zapata County. He used to have two cliffs, until the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers bulldozed over one as a part of border wall construction under the Trump Administration. Credit: Jessica Rodriguez for The Texas Tribune What sold Gerardo Varga...

Area other than the port of entry that's where we work. the border patrol, we work in the dirt. we don't work in the clean, pristine ports of entry. when you come into those areas it takes the resources away. that's where the cartels win. what they want to us do, take our resources away, so that they can get their billion dollar entry going and keep the product coming across to the united states. >> laura: sman how it is that a 15-year-old boy from honduras, manages to find his way to mcallen, texas or rio grander in one of the sectors, east from here, imperial beach. how do they get there? th...

The cross-border traffic based on where you put the fencing. you won't put a fence on the rio grander. >> a montana top. you will funnel it to your advantage. that makes perfect sense. last question. do you get the sense people don't want the wall because they know the wall works? >> yes. what you want -- you see the left politicizing this issue all the time. we want to stop talking about this issue. we don't want this to be a 20-20 debate. we want to secure the bored so we don't have to continue to say we need this and we need that. let's get the republicans behind this president, get him wha...

On where you put the fencing. you won't put a fence on the rio grander. >> a montana top. you will funnel it to your advantage. that makes perfect sense. last question. do you get the sense people don't want the wall because they know the wall works? >> yes. what you want -- you see the left politicizing this issue all the time. we want to stop talking about this issue. we don't want this to be a 20-20 debate. we want to secure the bored so we don't have to continue to say we need this and we need that. let's get the republicans behind this president, get him what he need. we'll secure the bor...

On where you put the fencing. you won't put a fence on the rio grander. >> a montana top. you will funnel it to your advantage. that makes perfect sense. last question. do you get the sense people don't want the wall because they know the wall works? >> yes. what you want -- you see the left politicizing this issue all the time. we want to stop talking about this issue. we don't want this to be a 20-20 debate. we want to secure the bored so we don't have to continue to say we need this and we need that. let's get the republicans behind this president, get him what he need. we'll secure the bor...