Reaper Drones over Houston: A War in Mexico Would Mean War in America

I moved out of Mexico about a year and half ago into deep south Texas in order to stay warm and have inexpensive rent but not be in Mexico. And supposedly because I was going to watch the Starship launches in person but I am too lazy and broke for that.<p>This article makes me think I should definitely find another completely different inexpensive area to live when the lease runs out.<p>But the recommendation to build a wall and hope you can choke them off doesn&#x27;t sound very promising. I also personally think part of the problem is the extreme wealth disparity between the countries. And I know people will say that is because rich Mexicans hoard wealth more or something but that&#x27;s only part of it.<p>I just don&#x27;t think you can have a &quot;real&quot; civil society without effective government. Despite how horrible we know government to be, we can see the alternative in Mexico today.<p>My own opinion is that it&#x27;s a humanitarian crisis that doesn&#x27;t actually stay outside of the US anyway, and at some point we need an integrated and functional cross-continental American government and much more relative equity in income between regions. And if you can approach that then maybe you can work on a reversal of the criminal culture.<p>My suspicion is that a lot of this is getting worse with deteriorating real-world economics.<p>I am interested to hear about this &quot;build a wall and choke off the demand&quot; thing could really work out in the long run. It doesn&#x27;t sound effective or humane.

How would the cartels get anywhere close to an important place within the US?<p>I think this article is imagining that the cartels are effective military, that the US military stands down, and that US citizens are weak and ineffective like South American peasants.<p>In reality a little bit of unpoliced chaos in the US would quickly lead to civil war level cleansing in the affected areas. How far would a gringo get unnoticed in Mexico or Somalia? (Not very far)

Interesting article, but I have little reason to believe the Cartels would provoke further attacks with indiscriminate murder in Texas. It&#x27;s also questionable to claim the majority of Cartel members, most of which are street gangsters and untrained affiliates, would have the resolve to fight a guerrilla war.

Hit them hard and keep it up until they&#x27;re all dead