Why Is El Paso Not A Bloodbath

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Down on the southern boarder sets El Paso, Texas, a city of about 736,000. Right across the board is Ciudad Juarez, Mexico which has a very high murder rate. In the last 18 month a reported 2,500 homicides took place. El Paso on the other hand only had 18 murders during the same time period. Compared to Baltimore, with 637,000 residents, had 234 homicides. El Paso is a very poor city with 27 percent of it's population living under the poverty line. So why has not the violence spilled over into El Paso? Well I will give you my reasoning and it is actually two reasons. First is El Paso's gun laws or actually the lack there of. Ironically across the border you should not be able to get a gun, because they are illegal. Now I can hear it now, if we the US had tougher gun laws Ciudad Juarez would be as safe as El Paso. Are you sure, have you ever thought about El Paso would become as violated as Ciudad Jaurez if they had tougher gun laws. Second reason is El Paso's high level of immigration. Cities with high level of immigration actually have very low levels of crime. San Diego, CA and Laredo, TX. Think about it why leave a country if you are going to make it just as violent as the country you left. With a population of El Paso that is very accepting of Hispanics you do not see the ethnic violence that plagued New York City during the early 1900's. Alright I said enough now what do you think.