Emotions ran high outside an immigration town hall meeting in Murrieta.
NATS PROTESTER
"Support Americans, not illegals!"
The small California town has been thrust into the center of a growing immigration debate...
NATS COUNTER PROTESTER SAYING "YES, WE CAN!" IN SPANISH
"Si, se puede, si se puede!"
Where to temporarily put bus loads of undocumented migrants, like the families that were bound for a nearby Border Patrol station earlier this week...
NATS ANGRY CROWD
Only to have angry residents of this the San Diego suburb force them away.
NATS ANGRY CROWD
"U-S-A!"
U.S. immigration authorities can't keep up with the surge of undocumented migrants in recent months, many of them families and minors traveling alone.
They've overwhelmed federal detention centers.
So authorities are setting up overflow sites in California and other states in the Southwest to help manage the influx.
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