United States southern border with Mexico is feeling the Trump effect. Throughout the campaign, President Donald Trump has been very critical of the southern border with Mexico by calling it porous and as a way for illegal immigration as well as drugs. He vowed to erect a wall across the southern border for which he said that he will make Mexico pay for it, one way or the other.

According to a report released by the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), illegal immigration via southern border is down 40 percent in the first month of Donald Trump as the President. The Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) former general John Kelly credited enforcements and tough talks by the President for the decline.  DHS said in a statement that illegal border crossing actually increases in the month of January to February according to the past data. However, there has been a sharp increase in the border crossing just before President Trump got inaugurated. Between October 1st,2016 and January 20th, 2017, there were 157,000 captures, which is higher by 35 percent. The number of families crossing the border illegally, increased by 100 percent for the same period. Secretary Kelly also said that this additional security at the southern border has also increased smuggling fees. President Trump has recently promised that he would increase the number of CBP agents by 10,000 and 5,000 for border patrol officers.

While this development has been good news for the President, his Mexico rhetoric has soured the relation between the two nations.