Travel Warning extended to Mexico

I have just read about the travel warning that the U.S. State Department has extended to Mexico. It seems that gang violence fueled by drugs and a rift between two major cartels has made many of the cities unsafe to travel in for American citizens. Most of the violence being committed victimizes only members of the opposite gang, but still, things are looking bleak in Mexico right now. In certain cities, hours long shootouts are not uncommon, and what is really scary is that the most dangerous cities are the ones bordering Texas. The Mexican government has been battling these two cartels, the Zetas and the Gulf cartel, and the two cartels have been battling each other.

Through all of this, the thing that strikes me as sickly ironic is that we have issued a travel warning that advises our citizenry to keep out of Mexico, yet Arizona has cracked down on illegal immigration and will surely be deporting more people from the country. Effectively, the U.S. has said "Everyone keep out of Mexico, unless you happen to be here illegally, in which case we will be happy to give you a free ride back."