The United States and Mexico must move quickly and decisively to quell the current crises on their border. Not to do so is to invite dire consequences.
Growing tumult along the U.S.-Mexico border poses a strategic threat to both countries. In the main, deteriorating conditions there spring from Mexican drug cartels (feeding demand from within the United States); the cartels’ ability to easily procure sophisticated weaponry—again, from the United States; and the entrenched U.S. practice of using immigrants—mainly Mexicans—for labor that many Americans consider demeaning or inappropriate.
