Business leaders say immigration troubles hurt legal border trade [Video]

In Nogales, Arizona, business leaders understand something often lost in all the discussion of people crossing the border: That there’s a positive value of being next to Mexico with all the cargo that comes across. 

In Nogales alone about 400,000 trucks per year bring in millions of dollars worth of products you use and food that you eat. At Chamberlain Distributing, workers waste no time moving fresh food off trucks coming from Mexico, or onto other trucks that could move it all over the United States.

On this day at the border, it’s corn. But on other days it could be fresh tomatoes, squash, grapes —  it’s a menu too long to list.

“We’re very, very fortunate to be on the border here,” says Jaime Chamberlain of Chamberlain Distributing.

Chamberlain says cross-border produce has been a booming business for a hundred years, and his family’s been in it for more …