[joe_the_user]

And a lot of that violence spills over the border into the US. Bloody cartel murders, extortion, and such are common in the southwest US and beyond.

One might imagine that but one would do well to actually investigate whether it's true.

I visited El Paso, Texas a few years ago. It has one of the lower murder rates for cities of it's size in the US. It's directly across the border from Cuida Juerez, a city with one of the highest murder rates in the Western Hemisphere.

It's actually quite remarkable how contained the horrible violence in Mexico is.

12th lowest here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...