Mexican Violence Poses Threat To Spring Breakers

Mexico's rising violence and drug-related crimes represent a very serious security challenge to the United States and students going there on spring break should take special precautions, says a homeland security expert at Texas A&M University.

Dave McIntyre, who heads the Integrative Center for Homeland Security at Texas A&M and is an expert on security and terrorism matters, explains that Mexican drug cartels have established networks in almost every major U.S. city. "They fight among themselves for the trade routes into the U.S.," McIntyre says. "In recent years, the Mexican government has tightened down on the leadership of drug gangs, but the result has been that the violence has increased dramatically."

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