During a segment of her show, “Lara Logan Has No Agenda: Return to the Border,” gunshots began to ring out in what Logan called a “war raging on America’s doorstep.”
Host Logan, accompanied by counter-terrorism specialist Jason Jones, visited a small city in Texas near the Rio Grande called Roma. Jones says it was there that fierce gun that originated just across the border in the Mexican city of Ciudad Miguel Aleman could be heard for four consecutive days.
One day, Logan and Jones were walking in an area of the town close to the river at about 4 o’clock in the morning when they heard the terrifying sound of an automatic rifle.
The two quickly made their way to a lookout point on the Rio Grande and while they were not able to see anything from their vantage point overlooking Ciudad Miguel Aleman, just several hundred feet away, the rifles could clearly be heard firing.
Jones said of that morning, “This is what I have been trying to warn about. Another day at the border.”
Shortly after that, the riflemen could clearly be heard exchanging rounds with what Jones was able to identify as a .40-caliber grenade launcher.
Logan said in the show’s narration, “We’d arrived to find war raging on America’s doorstep.”
The small city of Roma, which is about 180 miles southwest of Corpus Christi, hosts an international bridge crossing where agents of the Border Patrol often recieve reports of violence just across the river.
