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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Brown" data-source="post: 1317223" data-attributes="member: 18">Same thing that stops criminals from getting their hands on guns.<img src="/images/smilies/wink2.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":wink2:" title="Wink2    :wink2:" data-shortname=":wink2:" />In a serious vein, American gangs are much less organized that foreign gangs, so it is less likely that they will cross borders unless absolutely necessary.  Not to mention there is nothing to gain in Mexico that isn't high risk.The majority of organized crime in the U.S. today comes from outside our borders i.e. Eastern Block, Mexican, South/Central American, non-Ameircan African.The days of Italian-American and Irish-American organized crime are largely gone.However some organized crime experts believe this will have a suprising effect on crime in the states, that violent crime among organized groups will go down.The point to a similar trend in previous organized crime in the U.S. where recent immigrants showed a much greater propensity toward violence than their descendants eventually did as they became more "Americanized" and as their schemes became more sophisticated, it became less profitable and more risky to display overt acts of violence due to law enforcement intervention.That said, it's just a theory.Michael Brown</blockquote>