For the Record': Cartel Violence and Corruption Spilling Across the Border From Mexico

Drug cartel-related violence and corruption has overrun Mexico so completely that some call it a “failed state.”

There are growing signs that the Mexican drug cartels’ power and influence is escalating in the United States.  From the gruesome murders to the arrests of well over 100 U.S. law enforcement agents for taking bribes, it’s clear the drug war south of the border has moved to American soil.