A Fox News reporter hid in the bushes along the United States border in McAllen, Texas, to stop migrants attempting to cross the border illegally.

“We’ve been hiding in the bushes waiting to witness one of these crossings,” Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins said during a “Fox & Friends” segment that aired on Tuesday.

“They’re coming right now,” Jenkins continued as he began to journey through the bushes to a river. “You can see they’ve got a family in a raft.”

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The reporter then yelled out to a group of people he suspected to be migrants as they paddled down the river: “Excuse me, sir, were you trying to cross into America illegally?”

The man paddling then went to the other side of the river as the lettering on the Fox News broadcast began to read: “Griff Foils Illegals’ Attempt to Cross Border.”

FOX NEWS ALERT: Migrant caravan grows to a mile long as it heads straight for the U.S.-Mexico border | @GriffJenkins pic.twitter.com/3ZIH6Ubsk5 — FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) October 23, 2018

“So what we’re witnessing now is clearly a family that was being brought over by that smuggler that was paddling in the raft. This is an attempt to illegally cross, and they’ve gone back over there,” Jenkins said.

“We seem to have foiled this attempt, but officials tell us that he’s probably just going to look for another spot,” he added.

In another clip during the segment, Jenkins could be seen walking alongside several people he suspected to be migrants, asking if they were crossing illegally.

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“Can you tell me, is it an illegal crossing? Yes? But you came anyway?” he asked.

“Well why did you come, is what I’m asking you. Can you tell me why you came illegally?" Jenkins asked an unknown woman.

The woman responded: “The situation in Honduras. You cannot have work in there because the criminals will always get your money.”

The report arrives as a caravan of migrants heading to the U.S.-Mexico border has grown to more than 7,500 people, according to CNN.