there is a report that some small businesses are struggling. reporter: with his retail store located just steps away from the border crossing, braker s has thrived by offering american products you can t find on the other side to mexican nationals. federal regulations and enforcement reduced that traffic from mexico. in 2007 we had 7.5 million crossing the border, 99% of that was happening downtown. last year the fiscal numbers was under 3 million. i m joined by j.j. ren berg, about to kick off the tenth season. thanks for being with me. it s great to see you. it was really interesting and sad in some ways. there were a lot of great things but in part of the piece you just saw, these companies, while physically in the u.s. were economically in mexico.