Mexico safer than headlines indicate (crime rates, living, dangerous, safe)
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
It would seem fairly clear - fly, don't drive, across the border into the safe regions. Yet whenever people say they are going to Mexico, the invariable response is "Aren't you afraid?"
Media sensationalism accounts for much of the wariness. "Gangland violence in western Mexico" "Journalists under attack in Mexico" and "Mexico mass grave toll climbs" sound as if the entire country were a killing field. The story might name the state, but rarely the town and almost never the neighborhood. And some reporters apparently are confused by the word "municipality" - some of the killings reported as being in Mazatlan, for example, actually happened in a town miles away from the city - akin to attributing East Palo Alto's slayings to San Francisco.
But the biggest factor may be that travelers looking for a carefree vacation simply find it easier to write the entire country off than to learn what areas to avoid.
It is odd that the U.S. media wants to frighten people but they do. Almost all the violence in Mexico is between drug cartels fighting other drug cartels. It is extremely rare for foreigners to be involved and those few foreigners were usually involved someway with drugs. The U.S. has far more random crime.
As far as driving, there are many elderly, retired foreigners in Mexico who drive across the border daily and I've never heard of any being molested. Most complain that the Army or federales stopped them at check points, checked them out, and delayed their trip for a few minutes. Driving isn't dangerous in Mexico either.
Yeah, it's so safe and awesome there that Illegals are only running here because we are so crime ridden in the U.S. ..Got it
What you didn't get is that most people making lifetime decisions have much more important things on their minds than the relative crime rates of the places they are going to.
Does the city you live in have the lowest crime rate in the country, of did you have some other set of compelling reasons for moving there?
Yeah, it's so safe and awesome there that Illegals are only running here because we are so crime ridden in the U.S. ..Got it
Oh oh, someone didn't get the memo.
Here, let me bring you the light:
Quote:
The precipitous decline is the latest measure to suggest illegal immigration, especially from Mexico, has fallen substantially.
The number of people leaving Mexico dropped by 60 percent from 2006 to 2010, according to a July report from the Pew Hispanic Center based on analysis of Mexican government data. The estimated number of illegal immigrants living in the United States has dropped to 11.2 million since reaching a peak of 12 million in 2007, found a February report from the Pew Hispanic Center.
They aren't leaving because of the cartels. if people picked up and left because of the crime rate, Detroit would be a ghost town.
It is true, there are people leaving to the USA because of the cartels, the corrupt rich ones, the ones that put calderon's government in place...
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
