Texas fights for tougher border security. A small town in middle America says it needs more migrants

to fill jobs, but some residents are not on board.

NBC's news correspondent Julia Ainsley is in Fremont, Nebraska with that story.

In major cities across America, officials say they've reached a breaking point, struggling

to handle the record number of arriving migrants.

But here in small town Fremont, Nebraska,

where there are just 39 workers for every 100 job openings.

Some are encouraging even more legal migrants to come.

We need these people. We need this work done, this is what feeds the nation in the world.

Many of the openings are at this half billion dollar chicken plant opened in 2019.

Young locals often move away,

leaving those slaughterhouse jobs to migrants,

like Vicente Hernandez.

With Hispanic migrants, although it is hard,

although it is heavy, they endure, he says.

The difference with an American citizen is that every time he finds a job, when he sees it

is hard, he leaves it, he says.

Hernandez and his wife are also pastors to the growing Guatemalan community.

Once this town of 27,000 was nearly all white, Now one out of six or Latino. Since 2018 the school

district added almost 800 non-English speaking students. Me packing is the

biggest industry here in Fremont. The state's chamber of commerce says Nebraska needs to welcome more migrants to fill jobs like these.

But some residents here are resistant to that change.

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