Mexican Drug Cartel : Biggest Threat in Texas

In the article, "Mexican drug cartels: Biggest threat to texas and its residents" The deparment of public safety provide a brief article on how texas is being affected by drug cartels. People, cash,weapons and stolen merchandise are being moved back and forth across the border. It is also affecting texas safety, "it is a top DPS priority to severely obstruct the range and power of mexican drug cartels organization to affect the public safety of texas citizens" says DPS Director Steven McCraw. it seems that texas isnt safe and so now their priority is to help stop drug cartels for the safety of texas residents. "statewide prison gangs pose the secound organized crime threat in texas." texas is also one of the states being  threat by drug cartels. gangs are now working for mexican cartels, and still operate in or out of the prison system.Texas has also found a total of 141,982 undocumented criminal defendents kept into texas county jails."these individuals are responsible for ar least 447,844 individual criminal charges, including 2,032 homicides and 5,048 sexual assaults." these crimes "lead children to violence,extortion,forced labor, sexual assault, and prostitution." this is a really dangerous place for childer and it is not safe, this is was there priority is to get rid of all drug cartels in texas and all arund the world because people are als being affected by it even if they dnt form part of drug cartels .