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State troopers, local police ramp up at border as federal resources stretched Gabe Gutierrez and Al Henkel © Provided by NBC News ROMA, Texas As the rafts arrived, not one U.S. Border Patrol agent was in sight. Instead, state troopers, Texas Rangers and National Guard members were hoisting the migrants mostly women and children to safety past midnight. It is a crisis, said Lt. Christopher Olivarez of the Texas Department of Public Safety. You see how easy it is for these smugglers to raft these migrants across. As the surge of migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border grows, local and state law enforcement agencies are ramping up patrols because they say federal resources are tied up processing the spiking number of children. They argue it’s opening up gaps along the border for drug smugglers.

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