It looks like things on the border are getting (Nasty) questionable.http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,491964,00.html
"At this point, what we're focusing on is spillover violence," Cesinger told FOXNews.com Thursday. "The immediate concern, if any, would be that."
More than 5,300 people were killed in Mexico last year in connection to criminal activity, and some experts predict things will get worse. Along with Pakistan, Mexico was identified in a Department of Defense report last year as a country that could destabilize rapidly.
If that were to happen, officials are concerned that the drug violence could cross the Rio Grande into southern Texas.
Cesinger said the plan currently does not address a potential flood of refugees, though "It may be something that comes into consideration."
"Worst-case scenario, Mexico becomes the Western hemisphere's equivalent of Somalia, with mass violence, mass chaos," said Ted Galen Carpenter, vice president for defense and foreign policy at the Cato Institute, a Washington-based think tank. "That would clearly require a military response from the United States."
As soon as better info (from non-mainstream media) becomes available I will post it.
My wife and I have some sources we are exploring to see if any subtext can be garnered regarding the instability of Mexico.
Clearly things are deteriorating rapidly.
The few people who I have talked to in bordering countries of Central America have been just as puzzled as to why it is happening now. But it also appears the Mexican economy is just about spent.
The current price of oil is also having an effect and Mexican nationals earning income in the U.S. are finding work less available. The cross border transfer of wages to family of various Mexican nationals back home is slowing to a trickle.
Of course most of this is anecdotal, and finding hard statistics is going to be challenge until later in the year.
The fact that Texas is taking this very seriously should be a red flag, they don't expect much in the way of Federal U.S. response, which is reasonable.