An ABC News reporter accompanying a border patrol agent at the U.S.-Mexico border encountered a suspected human smuggler.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent Robert Rodriguez described the area in McAllen, Texas to ABC News reporter Tom Llamas on Monday as “one of the areas where almost exclusively the smugglers use it smuggle unaccompanied children and family units into the U.S. ”

They ran into a group of alleged illegal aliens climbing up the dirt path from the river when Rodriguez spotted someone else.

“Look, there’s a smuggler,” he shouted as he took off running, with the ABC News team right behind him. The man eventually boarded an inflatable raft and paddled away on the Rio Grande,

“I cannot go in the river to apprehend him. As long as he goes back south, I’m all right,” the agent said.

President Trump tweeted recently that those who illegally enter the U.S.need to immediately be sent back to their home countries.

We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order. Most children come without parents… — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 24, 2018

….Our Immigration policy, laughed at all over the world, is very unfair to all of those people who have gone through the system legally and are waiting on line for years! Immigration must be based on merit – we need people who will help to Make America Great Again! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 24, 2018

The ACLU, among others, criticized the president’s position as “both illegal and unconstitutional.”

? What President Trump suggested here is both illegal and unconstitutional. Any official who has sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution and laws should disavow it unequivocally. https://t.co/qsy58VACSB — ACLU (@ACLU) June 24, 2018

But it seems the ABC News video only served to ignite the demand to “build the wall!”

We need a wall — Douglas I Roberts (@dir1957) June 26, 2018

Wow! Liberal TV catches a smuggler. It must have hurt to just say, ‘a smuggler’ — BFuenz (@bfuenz14) June 26, 2018

This is an invasion. — Mr&MrsDeplorable (@GipperUCD) June 26, 2018

Accidental Reporting. ABC will be more careful in the future to make sure this doesn’t happen again. — Chaz Smith (@ChazSmith) June 26, 2018

And this one of many examples of the BULLSHIT going on at the border https://t.co/sq4cnF6OW5 — JamesErvin (@JamesEr44972422) June 26, 2018

Easy and quick

BUILD THAT WALL https://t.co/F7vOu0JSzi — Robert (@treong3) June 26, 2018

Are you kidding me ? We need a wall ! https://t.co/1Iygkxb8FR — Real Colin Raffio (@colinRaffio) June 26, 2018

So we catch them literally in the act of landing on US soil and the libs want us to give them a trial and a hearing? Just put them back on another boat and send them across. Easy peasy. Done. https://t.co/cywxWcUan5 — Big G (@truepair67) June 26, 2018

Not a staged event! How many more times does this happen when no one is looking/filming? https://t.co/y5q8Q2b9sT — Eastside Republican Club (@EastsideGOP) June 26, 2018