Drugs, polica, TJ's hard times.
I think Fox had the right idea with making small amounts legal. Bush put on the pressure because if TJ would have cleaned up, then it would have been a model for America to follow. (Imagine that.)
The polica I hate as of late. I use to walk around TJ smiling, noding, and spending way more money than I do now. Getting two 20's taken because I was dumb enough to bring Yohimbie with me across the border. Though legal and I told them to take me to jail, they just "lifted" the cash while searching. However it was the time my friend and I lost over 500.00 USD for his perscription medications that really ticked me off. They even gave them back because they knew it was legal and they had all our cash. Though I got 25 back from them saying I at least needed an alley girl on my trip. (LOL) So now the cabbies get more money and the merchants do not. I always gave the guy on the bridge a dollar on my way back if I hadn't been hassled. He's always friendly and smiling rolling around up on the bridge. I haven't seen him in ages due to me being all about business and cabbing strait to AB and then back to the border. It's quite sad.
The hard times are most likely going to get worse before it gets better. I still make trips here and there by myself and I have many friends who have asked to join in my mongering adventures. I go alone unless it's someone hard core who won't puss out when pressured by polica or a beautiful latina. What makes me sad is all the people that are trying to make a better life for themselves in Mexico. Without the tourist dollars the crime, corruption and violence will escalate affecting those there trying to live a better life there. No wonder so many try to come to the US for a better life, but even that has risks. A never ending cycle that both countries need to work together to solve, but with our history, I wouldn't trust us either.