Dr mike vickers falfurrias

FALFURRIAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Not content with the way the federal government is securing the border or with sitting by and doing nothing about it, a team of volunteers are patrolling private ranches in South Texas looking for people coming into the country illegally.

"We certainly don't see ourselves as vigilantes," said Jeff L., one of more than two dozen border volunteers who took part in a three day watch in Brooks County in August.

The group, called the Texas Border Volunteers, has members from all over the country but nearly half of the volunteers are from North Texas.

So far this year, they've spotted more than 400 people on private land trying to walk around the U.S.

Homeland Security check-point on Highway 281 near Falfurrias.

The group says U.S. Border Patrol agents caught more than half of those they reported.

"It's a question of doing something about it as opposed to reading a blog on the Internet and hitting a like on Facebook," said Jeff L.

"It's getting out and