Laredo is currently the biggest city on the border, without significant barrier. On the Mexican side, in Nuevo Laredo, the hyper violent and anti-American Los Zetas Cartel dominates the territory.
This is going to be excellent infrastructure - a dramatic transformation will occur, in just a year to two.
If Americans DIDN'T HAVE TO HAVE their drugs there would be NO CARTEL to fear.
WE are the problem.