Stolen Vehicles Going to Central America

According to this story, every year an estimated 200,000 stolen cars and trucks are driven across the border from the United States to Mexico and points farther south. Just doing the numbers, that equates to over 500 stolen vehicles per day, every day, vanishing across the border into Mexico.

Central American countries and Mexico "are beginning to see the totality of the problem," said Ralph Lumpkin, border operations director of the National Insurance Crime Bureau.

It's estimated that vehicle theft generates $8 billion per year which is paid by the American consumer, of course, in the form of increased insurance premiums.

My take is that as long as the US-Mexican border functions as no more than an international speed bump, there is nothing to prevent US citizens from continuing to have their pockets picked.