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    Arizona ranchers who supported Trump's barrier along the border are losing faith

    by Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times Mar 14, 2019 6 minutes

    NACO, Ariz. - When Donald Trump was elected president, rancher John Ladd said smuggling traffic on his ranch immediately dipped, and he slept soundly for the first time in years.

    Ladd, 63, a fourth-generation cattle rancher, had voted for Trump and his promise to build a border wall and have Mexico pay for it. But the wall hasn't been constructed, the respite didn't last, and Ladd, along with other vocal southern Arizona ranchers, has lost faith in the Border Patrol's barrier plans.

    "If they build a wall and do what they did to us, it isn't going to work," Ladd said last week as he drove through the 10 1/2-mile stretch of his ranchland that borders Mexico - roughly from the community of Naco west to the San Pedro River.

    All but about half a mile of the border on his ranch is already fenced, a patchwork of varying heights, all erected on his land prior

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