How will this affect crime in and around Laredo re guns, murders, gangs, cartels, drugs, smuggling in general, robberies, kidnappings for ransom, etc?
“How will this affect crime in and around Laredo”
It is going to be good, the only question is how good.
It seems to me that a second Trump term will be marked by significant success against Mexican Cartels - and that in itself would be huge for crime near the border as well.
Just as President Trump issued Executive Order 13767 (Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements) the first week in his Presidency (but it took years for the Wall Program to reach its current full scale deployment), he also put the wheels in motion for major operations against the cartels (which also have long lead times to set the right conditions).
I believe the barrier alone will be strongly transformative on the American side, in terms of unorganized (street) crime, and will help lessen the value of the Mexican side to the cartels. But paired with a strategic defeat of the cartels, and the new USMCA trade deal, it will create a renaissance in the region.