Comment on Classmates Post.

     One of my classmates, Margaret Falcon, wrote an interesting post "Borders and Drug Trafficking". After reading her post, I have to agree with Margaret s claim that there must be something done to control the violence and drug trafficking around the border towns.

      I am actually from El Paso, Texas, which is the border town to Juarez, Mexico. Juarez is considered to be the main entry port for illegal drugs into the United States. The violence and death rates are definitely rising and  posing a threat to citizens in both sides of the border not just in Mexico. There was a case where a man was kidnapped in El Paso and was taken back across the border by alleged drug dealers. A ransom had to be paid before he was given back to his family 2 weeks later. There is a massive drug war being hosted in Mexico where cartels are competing for the drug routes to the United States. These drug traffickers are more powerful than people think and it has showed. In July 2010 the firs successful car bombing by a drug carted in the north of Mexico brought new loads of terror. I do agree with Margaret that we might not be able to stop drugs from entering our border.  Despite the efforts being made by both U.S and Mexico to strengthen civilian law enforcement institutions, I believe that even more must be done to lower the violence. Our Government must be very careful and not underestimate the power that these drugs cartels have as they have already made it clear that they can execute terrorist attacks in the form of car bombings. I believe that this poses a huge threat to our national security and our government must figure our a cautious way to deal with this issue before it is too late.