Coming to an AMerican City Near You if the Immigration Reform Passes

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Violence Sets Mexico City on Edge - WSJ.com

Mexico City authorities say that while the city has seen some shocking events in recent months, figures show a decline in crime. Jesús Rodríguez Almeida, the police chief, said so-called high-impact crimes, such as murders, kidnappings and extortion, have dropped 12% in the past nine months compared with the same period a year before. Still, Mexico City's homicide rate of 22 per 100,000 people remains much higher than Los Angeles's rate of 7.7 per 100,000 and New York City's 3.8 in 2012. And many crimes in Mexico City go unreported due to distrust of the police, the government has said.

Mr. Rodríguez said the mass abduction in May resulted from a fight between rival gangs that had gotten into a territorial dispute downtown, but that it shouldn't be seen as a trend. "It happened in a specific point, this isn't generalized over the entire city," he said.

Alberto Islas, a Mexico City security analyst, said recent crimes in the city can be traced to Mexico's growing domestic drug market, where local gangs are vying for control—essentially replicating in miniature the fight for the U.S. market.

Yeah, the media doesn't talk much about the millions of gang members that are here among the illegals, and once the lid is off that bottle every major American city will end up just like Mexico City and the whole border area.