Amateur video was obtained by KFOX showing horses near Interstate 10 in Sierra Blanca. One of the horses was in the median, while another is getting dangerously close to the freeway.

"At night I'm really scared because I'm worried that my animals will get on the freeway and cause an accident," said a rancher who did not want to be identified.

The rancher claims that Border Patrol agents either open his gates and don't close them or break the fence when they're driving through and his horses are getting out.

"It's a big problem because someone can really get hurt if they're in a small vehicle. If they hit a cow or a horse someone can even lose their life," said the rancher.

KFOX called the El Border Patrol sector, which covers the Sierra Blanca area, to respond to this claim. The spokesman, Doug Mosier, said there's no way of knowing if it was a Border Patrol agent. But he said supervisors are constantly telling agents to take precautions and close gates even if they weren't the one to open them. Mosier said the Border Patrol does everything it can not to interrupt ranching and farming operations in the interest of protecting the livestock. But the rancher disagrees.

"I've told them many times but they don't listen. One of them is the border patrol. I've filed a complaint with the sheriff's department," said the rancher.