Katarina Szulc

The price of being smuggled across the border has gone up, like if you want to pay for a coyote to take you across.

Less coyotes are operating because of just the sheer amount of vigilance at the southern border.

And US and Mexico numbers both show that fentanyl trafficking has gone down at the southern border.

96% is very high.

To say it's 96% secured, I mean, how do you even quantify how secure a border is?

The number of people coming across, right?

But, of course, you don't track every single person that's coming across.

Has it gone down?

Certainly.

And numbers on both sides of the border show that.

And if you just go to that border, it looks so different than it did six months ago.

I mean, you have tons of CBP, helicopter patrol constantly.

Mexico deployed an additional, I think...

12,000 National Guard to secure their side of the border.

And the threat of tariffs and U.S.

intervention in Mexico really did push Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to act on the southern border because she didn't want to see a Mexico where there was American intervention.

She wanted to maintain autonomy.

Fair enough.

Because she wants Mexico to stay Mexico.

She doesn't want to see American forces coming in.