Sheriff Mark Lamb

Well, you affect them money.

It's first and foremost.

So anything you do needs to be geared towards eliminating their sources of income.

And if you stop letting people come in, they'll stop showing up.

They're not going to fly halfway around the world just to end up in Mexico and be stuck there.

The majority of these people coming, A, because they're being funded by NGOs, B, because they know that they're going to get into our country.

But if they know they're not going to get in, that's naturally going to reduce the flow.

It's inevitably going to affect the income that the cartels are making.

It's going to increase the price of drugs again because now the supply reduces and the cartels are going to want to make money off of the drugs that they're bringing in.

It makes it easier for us to find the drugs because now instead of processing 10,000 people a day, CBP and Border Patrol are able to actually look for what their job is, people coming into the country illegally and bringing drugs into the country illegally.

But you need to declare them terrorists because then you can actually apply military force to them.

I'm not saying you do it without Mexico's permission.

I think you can engage Mexico as a partner and say, look, we're committed to doing this.

Why would Mexico do anything right now?

We're not committed.

We have a weak administration.

whether you like them or not, they just have shown weakness on the global level and people are taking advantage of that, you know?

And so I think what we need now is more strength.

And if you had somebody strong with resolve, I think Mexico would say, okay, let's go after them.

It wouldn't take much, some special forces units, you know?