When giving his impression of what a safe border constitutes, Karish said that his agents are getting pelted by rocks from the other side of the river and although he professes that his officers are there to preserve ad protect the lives of all those who are in need of assistance or rescue, the task of securing our border is becoming more and more complicated day by day. "In Israel they have land mines, they have machine guns, tanks and aircraft and their borders are still not 100% secure. We need to find a solution of how we can work to bring up the Gross Domestic Product of these countries in South America. Mexico's GDP is doing well actually," said Karish, "What we need to do is bring up the poverty levels in South American countries which will decrease the amount of people fleeing from this adverse poverty." When looking at countries with severe poverty, Karish said that India will have 12,000,000 more people in the next ten years. If they do not migrate to Europe, they will be coming to the United States. "We will continue to deal with the criminal element that are coming into the US, but we all have the responsibility to try to stop this problem. The big problem he added is the rise in the heroin trade, prescribed drugs and methamphetamine. "If we didn't have this insatiable appetite for drugs, we wouldn't have this problem." Sandra Martinez, Director of the Eagle Pass Chamber of Commerce said that average daily travel through our check point on Highway 57 is at a pretty steady pace and Chief Karish stated that his first priority when assigned to this area was to augment the size of the check point, however, the US government chose to build the one in Comstock which is significantly larger and has multiple lanes as opposed to ours, but the hope is that funding will come soon to upgrade this facility. Average daily travel on this check point is 3,680 on Sundays, 2,831 on Mondays, 2,152 on Tuesdays, 2,101 on Wednesdays, 2,241 on Thursdays, 2,689 on Fridays and 2,990 on Saturdays.