[Ditter]

My friends are European liberals and fortunately they have never become citizens of the US so they don't vote. We (my family) have spend many years during hunting season in South Texas and we have watched the deterioration take place. My friends live south of Cuernavaca so border problems are far away. But Mexico City and other parts of Mexico have not escaped violence. When I try and talk to them all they say is “there are murders in Houston too”. I wonder if they are even aware of Mexico's crime and corruption or have they just turned a blind eye because they live there and can't do anything about it.

[brushcop]

Thanks for that, I understand. I used to take a contingent of Boy Scouts into Mexico where they take Scouting very seriously, did it for years. As time wore on our friends in Mexico, families that the boys stayed with started dropping hints about the rising crime rate INCLUDING the potential of kidnapping for mega bucks. What better target than some Scouts?

My friends would drive me around showing me where certain gangs of note had tagged buildings, one of the gangs was MS-13. My friend said that when we started seeing those tags in Texas there would be major trouble.

It took awhile then we started seeing the tags and we stopped taking Scouts down there. Some said I was being overly cautious, nope, I said we were using common-sense, my call as Scoutmaster. I’m glad we stopped in light of what’s happening over there, bad enough on OUR side of the “frontier”.