From New York Times, I'm Micah Bobaro.

This is the Daily.

When the Governor of Texas announced an unprecedented plan to use local law enforcement

to stop the flow of migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border, few communities were more

receptive than the city of Eagle Pass, where residents had become fed up with the federal

government's approach.

Today, two years later, my colleagues, National Correspondent Edgar Sandeval and Daily

Producer Nina Feldman traveled to Eagle Pass to find out why the people who once welcomed

the plan are now turning against it.

It's Thursday, October 19.

I could tell us about this trip that you just took to the U.S.-Mexico border.

So a few weeks ago, I traveled to the town of Eagle Pass, Texas, with a producer from the

Daily, Nina Feldman.

You're going to need to ride towards the International Bridge.

And the thing to know about Eagle Pass is that right under your grandeur, directly across

from the town of Beardas, Mexico, not unlike the town where I went to high school in college

in my calendar in Texas.

So you can just cross that bridge and you're Mexico in a few minutes.

And it's really one town divided by the river, the rear grandeur, right?

So there are about 30,000 residents and a lot of them live on one side and work on the other

side.

And as a border town in Eagle Pass, they have always been used to illegal crossings.

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