U.S. Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin told Newsmax that Mexico is “getting better” in the area of border control methods with the US.

McLaughlin told America Right Now, “I think we are seeing some progress. They’re sending in their National Guard to the southern border to make sure it’s more secure. But we would like to see them actually guarding their own southern border with Guatemala so that we see less migration moving up to the U.S. through that route. That has been a problem where we like to see further cooperation.”

McLaughlin said the big picture on cooperative border control measures with Mexico, however, is improving. “I think that we’re seeing much better cooperation than we were just four months ago.”

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