Considering the debate over immigration that we see in the American media, it is interesting how this story is hardly getting any attention. Many politicians have been getting murdered in Mexico as the nation’s election looms.

Daily Sabah:

A total of 133 politicians have been murdered in the run-up to Mexico’s elections on Sunday, the consulting firm Etellekt said, as the violence gripping the country exploded into politics on a record scale.

The murders — mostly of local-level politicians, the most frequent targets for Mexico’s powerful drug cartels — were recorded between September, when candidate registration opened, and the close of campaigning on Wednesday, when an interim mayor was killed in the western state of Michoacan.

The victims included 48 candidates running for office — 28 who were killed during the primary campaigns and 20 during the general election campaign, Etellekt, which carried out a study of election-related violence, told AFP Thursday.

“This violence has been concentrated at the local level. At least 71 percent of these attacks have been against elected officials and candidates running for office at the local level,” said the firm’s director, Ruben Salazar.

“This is the result of very serious problems of governability at the local level,” he told Mexican radio network Formula.

Just one of the victims was running for federal office, he said.

It is by far the most violent election on record in Mexico, which also registered a record number of murders across the board last year: 25,339.

“In the 2012 elections… there were only nine politicians murdered and one candidate, according to our records,” said Salazar.

It’s a known fact that Mexico is one of the most violent countries in the world. That’s why people want the border wall and a curb on immigration. It’s one of the main reasons why Donald Trump was elected President of the United States.

But instead of hearing about how violent Mexico is, we are getting endless sob stories about undocumented children to explain why we can’t secure the border.

We are definitely going to need that border wall sooner rather than later though. It looks as if the next President of Mexico is going to be a leftist populist who supports a migrant invasion of the United States. We definitely don’t want this sort of violence filtering its way up into our country.