The 8 most dangerous border cities in America

For many years, border towns were safe and attractive for tourists and an impression of an alien culture, food, shopping and nightlife to visit. Today, these cities have a very different image that often happens by violence and crime on the border is overshadowed. Here are the 8 most dangerous towns:

El Paso: The West Texas City of El Paso shares a border with Ciudad Juárez in Chihuahua, Mexico, which is the most dangerous city in Mexico and one of the worst in the world. In recent years, violence in Juarez has begun on the U.S. side, El Paso residents, law enforcement and first responders endanger spill. Juárez is a battleground for drug-related violence and these groups showed no mercy to Americans. In 2010, stray bullets from a gun battle in Juárez El Paso Town Hall and a University beat building, allowing police to shut down a major border highway.San Diego: along the border from San Diego, California, Tijuana, one of the dangerous and violent cities in Mexico is located. Tijuana of drug and human trafficking rings have in San Diego, which every year infiltrated several murders and kidnappings. Fighting between drug cartels and car theft crimes are also very common along the border. Another concern along the San Diego-Tijuana border is the brutal rape of women and girls of traffickers in human beings.Calexico: Calexico, California, is located on the border of Mexicali in Baja California, Mexico. Calexico has to pass more than 60,000 people every day through the city. Drug smuggling is a major issue in Calexico, where many smuggling tunnels have been discovered and microlights have drop storage bins have been seen of marijuana on the American side. The most dangerous places one of Calexico is the all-American Canal, which is three miles from US port of entry in Calexico. Every year drowning attempt this dangerous body of water and America dozens of illegal aliens. Border patrol agents are often attacked, if you try to save illegal aliens along the Canal.Brownsville: Brownsville, Texas, lies across the border at Matamoros, Tamaulipas in Mexico, where drugs wars and violence become more and more common. This city has close to Mexico several problems along the border, including gun battles that have beaten building at the University of Texas at Brownsville and forced police cross border bridges shutdown caused. Brownsville sees its fair share of drugs, weapons and human trafficking crimes also across the border.Columbus: the small town of Columbus, New Mexico, shares a border with Puerto Palomas in Chihuahua, Mexico. In recent years become a breeding ground for organised crime, where an estimated 10% of the population of 2,000-person in illegal activity may be included Columbus. Drug traffickers have their homes here and is the town of small police scandal-ridden and constantly in disarray. This was not apparent in March, when the Mayor of Columbus, the City Police Chief and the village trustee under several city were charged with firearms after Mexico officials for trafficking in human beings.Laredo: Mexico borders, Laredo is a South Texas City on the North Bank of the Rio Grande, the Nuevo Laredo in Tamaulipas. For many years, Laredo was the target of the cartel violence and drug trafficking for Mexican gangs, and has added ransom kidnappings, a high speed chase and a record-breaking weapons bust in the list of criminal activities that happened there. In 2010, the US Consulate in Nuevo Laredo of explosives was damaged, was thrown over the wall from Mexican gang members.Nogales: Nogales, Arizona, shares a border with Nogales Sonora, Mexico. The Mexican city of Nogales is ridden with violence and gang activity, which has succeeded in the US side in the last few years to crawl. The ongoing battle for control of the trafficking routes along the U.S. Mexico border has brought Nogales, Arizona residents at greater risk. Last year, an Arizona rancher was killed by a Mexican smuggler on his property and a massive in connection with the gang killed and wounded six began shooting in close to the border, 21 people.McAllen: McAllen is located at the southern tip of Texas in the Rio Grande Valley and is five miles from the U.S. Mexico border. It is the Mexican city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, which is notorious for drug trafficking and border violence. 2008, One of the most brutal drug cartels in Mexico, Los Zetas, found its way into McAllen, again the control of drug trafficking routes in America. Mexican gang led reinforcements to increased drug smuggling, money laundering, arms smuggling and immigration problems in McAllen, Texas.

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