Safety along the Mexican border

We just finished Las Cruces, NM, to San Diego via I-10 and I-8 and back via I-10. I was MUCH more tense about the grades on I-8 over the mountains east of San Diego and the traffic on the SoCal freeways than I was about anything to do with border safety. There are parts of El Paso and San Diego I won't go into - the the same is true for any large city on any continent I've ever visited. Traveling those routes, you have nothing to be concerned about.

Rob