Drug-related violence in Mexico is linked to cartels fighting to control lucrative drug routes into and out of the country. However, “once the drugs are in the United States, there is little to fight over; a drug delivered (inside the United States) is a drug sold. End of story.”

Hale says he echoes the views of U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who wrote in his January, 2012 statement to Congress:

The Mexican cartels have a presence in the United States, but we are not likely to see the level of violence that is plaguing Mexico spill across the US border. We assess that traffickers are wary of more effective law enforcement in the United States.

Moreover, the factor that drives most of the bloodshed in Mexico -- competition for control of trafficking routes and networks of corrupt
officials -- is not widely applicable to the small retail drug trafficking activities on the US side of the border. U.S. officials and citizens in Mexico are at increased risk because of generalized violence.

DEA Agent Hale uses Clapper's report to point out we don't need to recast Mexico cartel members as terrorist threats.

While some in the U.S. government want to designate Mexico’s drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, “Clapper ignores this issue in his testimony and instead … defines the cartel wars as internecine battles between criminal organizations.”

Fox News found a single ex-FBI agent to back up its premise. The only support in the article for the agent's fear-mongering conclusion is that of a lone Texas resident who isn't even involved in law enforcement.