On the US-Mexico border: kidnap soars as cartel drug trade slows

In Mexico, a stone's throw from Texas, Trump tariffs are impacting more than trade and are putting maximum pressure on Mexico to reduce border crossings even further - leaving migrants trapped in cartel country.

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President Donald Trump campaigned on blocking off the US-Mexico border, to stop migrants arriving. And with his tariff threats hanging heavy over Mexico, the authorities there are keen to show how far the number of crossings has fallen.

In Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso in Texas the effects of the crackdown are being felt in the shelters, and even in the cartels. With fewer people to smuggle, they're fighting over smaller profits.

And that's left the migrants trapped in Mexico even more vulnerable to gangs, as our Latin America Correspondent Guillermo Galdos reports.

Warning: distressing images in his report.

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