are caught in the middle. rosa flores joins us now from eagle pass, texas. so she doesn t have access to a property. does it impact her or is there a wider effect? there is a wider effect, but let me set the scene for you anderson, because her property is where these buoys are. you can see, take a look, they have a beginning and an end. but the short strip of buoys and, they are just in front of her property. now if we pan back over, you will see that there are gates like this one, like the one you see here. they are all barricaded. she is 352 acres of land, and they re all barricaded like this. so there is concertina water wire, there s also dirt, you can tell that is just barricaded. she has no access to her property. but here where is where the wider impact kicks in. she s actually leasing her property to u.s. customs and border protection. take a look behind, we ll see that there s cool equipment that has been deployed. it s handwashing stations, porta-potties, tense, they were
lot of but as one bottle of water 4 to 3 people. law enforcement in airboats circling knocking them over after showing them handcuffs for requesting water, the other migrants said. the texas national guard did not respond to cnn s request for comment. these accounts come after a texas gps trooper blew the whistle last week saying texas have been treating migrants inhumanely, when troopers were ordered to push matters back into the river and deny them water. texas dps announcing the trooper misunderstood. orders never does an authority tell them to push back migrants. what it means to verbally tell them to go back to a port of entry. the bill the billions of dollars texas is spending on two i have people seen die from heatstroke on the property. while the e u.s. doj and mexico duke it out in cork. it s very frustrating. migrants and property owners
who are too scared to talk about it. nikki, i wish you the best, thank you so much for talking. thank you for having me welcome. still ahead tonight. texas will see you in court, those words today from the governor to the justice department, after texas put floating barriers in the rio grande river to try to deter migrants from crossing the border. we talk to one property owner who says she s impacted by it all.
metal and dirt. historically it s been a prop popular migrant crossing because a wall of the rio grande are low. and most recently texas is employed a floating border barrier without obtaining permits by the federal government. the buoys are four feet in diameter and anchored to the bottom of the rio grande. it surprised me that they did it just in front of my property. properties need del rio border patrol sector, the busiest sector on the border last month, with more than 24,000 migrant crossings. after mexico s top diplomat met complain about the buoys and they urged president biden to take legal action against texas. it s barbaric treatment, extreme cruelty. the justice department did just that. they deny them water. they say these two pregnant migrants who do not wish to see the show their faces told cnn they were initially denied water by texas national guard matters as they tried to turn themselves into authorities. she said that they were denied water, and the
like new developments in a legal fight between texas and the justice department. the doj is now suing the state after texas governor grab that refused to remove floating barriers from the rio grande. he says that they determinants from crossing over the state but the department of justice alleges that it s violating federal law. we spoke with the property owner who s been impacted by the states efforts to ward off migrants. rosa flores has the report. we are at the south end of our property driving along the river she owns an orchard in eagle pass, texas and says her property used to be beautiful. my husband and i would come out fishing, in this area it s really pretty but she says the state of texas installed concertina wire blocking actors to own property with piles of