call on christmas day for one tow truck driver. police in anchorage, alaska, releasing this cam footage. showing the driver inspecting pops up after that, jus departme be careful, slow down. sandra: despite crackdowns on both sides of the southern border, the smuggling business is still thriving. a fly from our west coast bureau with more on that. what s different now is the smugglers aren t mexican but u.s. citizens had and what is driving the trend is born of a silent crackdown, agents or sing more americans ranging from high school students to unemployed moms, even u.s. marines paid for 300 bucks for a mexican or central american to several thousand to hide chinese migrants and pickup trucks and vans.
let s talk more about all this with david rose, our global affairs analyst. nice to have you here, david. so what would you do if you were secretary collie and secretary killer son walking into this meeting and mechanics co-co- s foreign minister said, hold on, the president says we re not going to pay for the wall. by the way, we re in the going to take people that aren t mexican citizens back into this country just because you, the united states, say we should. i would look for some middle ground. this is a difficult position politically for the mexican government that can t be seen as backing down. maybe tillerson and kelly have some win-win formula here, but i m not sure what it is. here is how white house press secretary sean spicer described u.s.-mexico relations just yesterday. is this a cleanup job for the secretary of state? no.
think it will. i think this is pretty organic and there is a lot of anger. this is playing out because of trump s strategy to continue playing to the base. he can t broaden his appeal at all and he won by a narrow margin. if he continues to play this strategy of trying to alienate the voters who didn t support him, we are just going to see more of this up until the 2018 election. secretary of state rex tillerson and secretary of homeland security john kelly will meet with president enrique pena knnieto in mexico today. those who would cross the border will be sent back to mexico each if they aren t mexican. here is hallie jackson pressing administration yesterday. reporter: obviously, tensions between mexico and president trump. is this a cleanup job for the secretary of state? no. i think president nieto and president trump spoke again.
doesn t want to talk about it. it s a national security issue. that s the bottom line on all of this. it really bothers me because here we are with a porous border, not really paying attention to who is coming over, what s happening with iran and hugo chavez and venezuela. we know that there are people going to venezuela learning spanish and then coming up through mexico with fake documents trying to cross the border. at their stop, they say well, i m mexican or spanish. the point is a border agent who really knows the difference in their language can tell that they aren t mexican. and so it s very difficult if the agents aren t really trained in linguistics to know that and they get across. what has the homeland security secretary s office or janet napolitano herself gotten back to you? the office has gotten back and told me they wanted to give me an intelligence briefing. i m on intelligence. i said thank you, i d appreciate it. i d like to have a answer to my letter and know whe