it just breaks my heart. >> all of mcallen was shaken. nothing like this had ever happened here. >> it was just so horrible to know that this beautiful, beautiful, nice person was found dead, murdered. [ bells toll ] >> since irene's car was still at the church, that's where investigators focused, and on the last man believed to see her alive, father john feit, the visiting priest. in a sworn statement, feit said he had taken a phone call from irene, wanting to speak to one of the priests about an important matter. but instead of taking irene's confession in the church, father feit had her go next door to the rectory. and after the visit, irene went missing. >> so, immediately my dad and others were wondering, you know, what had happened, and what did this guy know. >> traumatized, irene's family retreated into their home, surrounded by their closest relatives. >> i remember being in the house and the lady sitting on the bed just crying her heart out. >> as painful as the memories are, cousin noemi wanted us to see the family home today t

it just breaks my heart. >> all of mcallen was shaken.hing like this had ever happened here. >> it was just so horrible to know that this beautiful, beautiful, nice person was found dead, murdered. >> since irene's car was still at the church, that's where investigators focused, and on the last man believed to see her alive, father john feit, the visiting priest. in a sworn statement, feit said he had taken a phone call from irene, wanting to speak to one of the priests about an important matter. but instead of taking irene's confession in the church, father feit had her go next door to the rectory. and after the visit, irene went missing. >> so, immediately, my dad and others were wondering, you know, what had happened and what did this guy know. >> traumatized, irene's family retreated into their home, surrounded by their closest relatives. >> i remember being in the house and the lady sitting on the bed just crying her heart out. >> as painful as the memories are, cousin noemi wanted us see the family home today to better understand wh

it just breaks my heart. >> all of mcallen was shaken.hing like this had ever happened here. >> it was just so horrible to know that this beautiful, beautiful, nice person was found dead, murdered. >> since irene's car was still at the church, that's where investigators focused. and on the last man believed to see her alive, father john feit, the visiting priest. in a sworn statement, feit said he had taken a phone call from irene, wanting to speak to one of the priests about an important matter. but instead of taking irene's confession in the church, father feit had her go next door to the rectory, and after the visit irene went missing. >> so immediately my dad and others were wondering, you know, what had happened and what did this guy know. >> traumatized, irene's family retreated into their home, surrounded by their closest relatives. >> i remember being in the house and the lady sitting on the bed just crying her heart out. >> as painful as the memories are, cousin noemi wanted us see the family home today, to understand what happen

book now at doubletree.com/getaway. >>> mcallen, texas in the 1930s was segregated. the neighborhoods, the schools, even in the hospital mexican americans and anglos were treated in separate wards. but when irene garza was born in 1934, her parents were convinced they would transend discrimination together. >> we were tight. close, it was us against those prejudice against us. >> hispanics? >> hispanics. my dad fathered that. >> in her parents' day, the hispanic children only went to fifth grade but the garzas had bigger dreams. >> when you go to college, when you go to college. it was just something that would happen. >> if education was to be the way out, religion would show them the way up. school for the elementary grades would help. >> don't get mad, pray. so we would say we got to pray for so, so, we start praying. >> later at the public high school where girls often aspired to be baton twirls with the marching band, maureen and josi were relux tablet. >> was it unusual for mexican americans to do twirling? >> it was. my mom said you go ahead and try out. they

it's late afternoon in mcallen, texas.ir operations are about to begin. >> there are some areas of mclenlt, west of mcallen along the southwest border that are completely out of control in my opinion. >> reporter: captain stacy holland and his team from the texas department of public safety are trying to stop drug smugglers from crossing from mexico into the u.s. >> rapid rapid, one guy's gotten out. one guy's gotten out. ran into that house. >> reporter: they are also trying to stop the violence of a full-scale drug war from spilling north. >> are there parts of this border you would deem basically lawless or run by the cartels? >> absolutely. >> reporter: smack in the middle of this 21st century version of the wild west, two young americans, dachd hartley and tiffany young. just teenagers when they fell in love. >> we started dating in '98. the summer of '98. and dated for quite a while before we got engaged in 2001 and married in 2002. >> what took so long? >> we were 18. >> reporter: they wound up here, in the mexican

well, in that area, known as the texas valley, cities like edinburgh and mcallen and weslaco, you can't get a medical degree anywhere south of san antonio, you can drive four hours between san antonio and the texas-mexico border and not be able to get a medical degree. you can't get a law degree anywhere between san antonio and the texas-mexico border. and there are only a handful of ph.d. programs. so when i speak of the missing pieces, literally, of the infrastructure of opportunity to me the texas valley is one example of that. i know many folks like congressman hinojosa, others are working very hard to change those things but they have -- those changes have been slow in coming. but i will also point out with regard to the infrastructure of transportation which is part of the infrastructure of opportunity, that is also missing. so for example, when you try to drive, my thian cey is from a small town -- my fiancee is from a smalltown right near the texas-mexico border. you drive from san antonio down to the valley, drive those four hours and there's no continuous interstate highway yo