The bigger problem is that Mexico is colonizing us and we are just standing around, holding our d!cks, and letting them do it. In 20 years, if not sooner, the types of mass murders and beheadings you see in Northern Mexico will be commonplace in border states. You have to do more than seal the border, you have to deport actively and create a 10 mile buffer zone. But we won’t have the backbone to do it until things get really, really bad.
And yet El Paso is one of America’s safest mid-size cities: http://reason.com/archives/2009/07/06/the-el-paso-miracle