It has shifted to the mainstream political debate. It's disturbing.

I think that transparency is key to this debate.

That's always a big debate. Not every district uses shootouts. It's not a UIL rule that a district has to use shootouts. I'd like everything to be done statewide, so everyone does the same thing.

God help anybody who has to debate with Byrd.

The absurdity of it gets played out in the day-to-day lives of Border Patrol agents. Everybody knows somebody [in the U.S. illegally] who has some kind of relationship with a Border Patrol agent. Either someone in their family is married to one, or they're sleeping with one. People's lives are very complicated and intertwined and they're not very clear-cut.

From our experience, most of the folks that we work with are all staying here for the holidays. They're definitely staying for fear of not getting back in.