 Working on the United States and Mexico border is different than working anywhere else in the country. There are two types of illegal activity in this area that you need to be aware of that could affect your work or put you in danger. Drug smuggling and illegal immigration. Let's take a look at drug smuggling. Any place that you go along the border, you'll find a lot of smuggling activity, a lot of cross-border illegal activity. We have cartels that smuggle narcotics into the United States from Mexico in this area and these people have historically shown themselves to have no concern for human life. So they're trying to move through as quickly as they can. They move very, very quickly. They often have a couple of people that are carrying food and water for them and almost all of them have weapons of some kind. They have scouts on the hills above that will be radioing if they see any law enforcement in the area so that they change their route. They do not want to be caught. It's a felony that they're committing and they often, when they're detected, they'll often run. They hide their drugs and hope to come back to them potentially. We view the drug smugglers as being more dangerous because they have a lot more at stake monetarily. The drugs they're moving through are very valuable. It's got high commercial value and they get in their way, they have a lot to lose. We also know that a lot of them or a certain percentage of them are armed so they're a lot more potentially dangerous than illegal migrants. And then there's also the knowledge that some of them are on drugs at the time that they're moving the drugs and could be something that makes them extra aggressive and less rational, methamphetamines and who knows what else. So their behavior, you can't predict it to be a rational response to just encountering you out in the back country. Historically the drug and the human trade has been separate but right now we're seeing it more of a trend for the drug cartels to be controlling the cross-border human trade as well. We've seen instances where they will send a vehicle loaded with humans across and we'll all drive over and catch it and then while the agents are occupied with that they'll send in a load of narcotics in the same area directly afterwards and they're all tied together. Now let's turn to the other major problem on the border. Illegal immigration. It includes the illegal immigrants themselves and the people who smuggle them for money known as coyotes. You know I've been here a long time and so when I first started here it was rare to see an immigrant and when we did it might have been one person, a single person. These days it's common to see 20 to 50 to even 70 and alongside the road that border patrols apprehended. Virtually every cross-section that you can think about everything from young kids basically and moms all the way through to very elderly people. It's not uncommon to have people in a group of undocumented immigrants that might be 75 or 80 years old that are coming across and so you get every cross-section that you can imagine and this particular area here has got more of what the border patrol calls OTMs other than Mexicans. So they're Guatemalans and they're from all over the world that come through this particular area. From what we understand there's a lot of money involved. Prices that we've heard at this point are anywhere from $1,200 on up depending upon the type of transportation you're going to get once you get into the United States. There's a lot at stake and so people are I mean they're going to do whatever they have to do to get through. Sometimes they're life savings. Often people actually don't even have life savings when they get here. They become indentured servants to their coyotes until they can make that money and the coyotes will threaten their families until they get that money. Well the coyotes are the people, the smugglers who lead people through the park, through this area and lead them north. They're often the ones who arrange for the whole transportation cycle for the people to move into the United States so it can involve leading them through on foot and also then to a vehicle or a safe house or anything like that. They are usually, they usually carry weapons of some kind either guns or knives and they almost always have cell phones, sometimes radios and they often when they're caught will try to get rid of those things and blend in with the rest of the group and not identify themselves as a coyote. The potential is that they could try to protect themselves or try to get away by injuring somebody who's trying to get in their way and that potential is very, very high. Boyero is the guy that guides them to the border. They're the ones that leave them out in the woods and these people are not from this area. They don't know the country and they get lost. So all of a sudden they see a road and they start sticking to the road instead of going up in the mountains. They stick in the road and keep on walking until they get some help. The ones that we meet with usually they don't have water and they're thirsty and they're stopping to talk to anybody that's along the road to try to get some water from them to keep on going. But they try to stay on the road so they can get help because they're lost. The Boyero usually tells them I'll be back in a minute. They disappear, they leave them out there. These folks are told to the Seven Wire International Fence that Phoenix or Tucson is just over the hill and they have no idea that they are in for miles, miles upon miles of rugged walking in an area that's got no water. No potable water. They're just out there on their own and I don't think they know that. We've had what we call instances of border banditry where criminals come across from Mexico and a lot of them are tied into the smuggling rings so what's happening is they're robbing the people that they're smuggling across which would seem to be an example of the snake eating its own tail but they're not in it for the people they're in it for the money and so we've had many instances of armed robberies especially in this area we've had numerous instances of groups being told to strip down, strip naked they've held guns to their heads they've assaulted the women and they steal all their money and send them on their way to destitute.