cartel members and struggle glories. impose sanctions regime on cartel connected mexican officials who are involved in this migrant black market. but, they haven t done anything. jed, abbott and nine other g.o.p. governors came out with this 10 point plan about how to stop the border crisis. and every single point that they brought up had relied on the federal government to take action. which is not going to happen. why? ben: it s absolutely not going to happen. lara, i know you are experienced in covering the border issues as well. we are used to seeing, you know, are this explained away in terms of well, you know, we can t do anything because the feds, you know, they control this aspect or that aspect. what i see here is problem after problem where the states are going to have to stand up and basically fill this void that has been, you know, whether through incompetence or intent created from the federal government on down. what is your perspective on the border aspect of this?