Newsmax’s resident immigrant-hater, James Walsh, checks in again with a May 13 column denouncing President Obama’s speech in El Paso, Texas, on immigration. Walsh asserted that “A drug cartel crime wave also is underway in El Paso, which ranks second only to southern Arizona in cases of drug and illegal alien smuggling and related murders.”
In fact, as Media Matters details, El Paso was recently rated the safest large city in the country. And while its cross-border sister city, Ciudad Juárez, had more than 2,700 murders last year, El Paso had only one, in large part because the drug cartels don’t bring their violence across the border.