EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Within the span of an hour, U.S. Reps. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, and Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, held separate news conferences near Downtown El Paso and offered starkly different views of President Donald Trump's first week efforts to target immigration along the southern border. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas “This is a very big problem that is going to take years to accomplish. But I tell you what, in just a few days, President Trump, in my eyes, has already accomplished more than President Biden has done in years. So very positive, very excited about that,” Gonzales said by the border near the Chihuahuita neighborhood. “What the Trump administration is doing right now is performative in many respects. It really is in many ways, I think, a form of propaganda so that he can tell his base, ‘Look, I'm doing exactly what I told you I was going to do,'” Escobar said at San Jacinto Plaza.  In their separate news conferences, Gonzales and Escobar fundamentally disagreed on Trump’s use of U.S. military personnel, and on whether the current situation at the border constitutes a crisis or not.  U.S. Military Troops deployed to Ft. Bliss on January 25 "The district I represent has been ground zero for this border crisis. And it will be ground zero for the deportation operations that are ongoing," Gonzales said.  Gonzales represents the 23rd Congressional District, which stretches from San Antonio to East El Paso and includes Fort Bliss. "It is highly unusual to see this much personnel being used during a time that is not at a crisis point," Escobar said. Escobar represents the 16th Congressional District, which consists of most of the El Paso region. Gonzales supports what the Trump Administration has done in the past few days, adding that Trump has had an immediate impact in his first week back in the White House.  Gonzales said the ramped-up operations at the border -- namely the deployment of military troops with expertise in engineering and security -- have been running smoothly out of the gate.   "If the military is working very closely with ICE and ERO (Enforcement and Removal Operations), which is (already) happening, this is going to be a very streamlined operation very quickly. Hat goes off to (border czar) Tom Homan; hat goes off to President Trump,” Gonzales said.  Gonzales also said he and the rest of the Congress will play an integral role in continuing to fuel Trump’s efforts.  "(From) a monetary standpoint, we (need to continue) investing those funds and those resources to give the president every instrument he needs in order to execute these deportations at the scale that needs to happen. These convicted criminal aliens need to go, " Gonzales said.  Escobar, meanwhile, criticized Trump’s use of U.S. military personnel and aircraft.  "Those resources are limited in supply. There's not just this unlimited access to military personnel, planes. And when you take one or two out of rotation, you're taking them out of the hands of the Pentagon, which may need them for other purposes. So, there's a reason why military aircraft have never been used before for these purposes," Escobar said.  Escobar also said that ICE already has a full fleet of aircraft to carry out deportations, which have the capacity to transport several dozen more people at a time than the military aircraft that have been used in El Paso to deport migrants.  Escobar said she was informed that there could be up to 10,000 troops processed in El Paso which will then be deployed along the U.S.-Mexico Border. She said it is not unusual to see DOD personnel or assets being used to support border operations during moments of crisis or national emergencies, but questioned the need for them now.  "We are seeing fewer than 1,000 daily apprehensions along the entire US-Mexico border, per day right now. For context, that's lower than what we were seeing near the end of Donald Trump’s first administration," Escobar said.