Government-Issued Travel Warnings against Mexico How they are biased, unnecessary, inaccurate and contradict policy.

How these unnecessary warnings negatively impact Nevada businesses, national businesses and the U.S. Economy. When comparing Mexico to other countries in specific criminal activity, the results show Mexico is SAFER. The below statistics are per 100,000 inhabitants. Assault South Africa: 1,200 USA: 757 Canada: 712 Chile: 332 Spain: 224 Mexico: 170 Colombia: 59 Japan: 34 India: 22 Car Theft Australia: 692 USA: 387 Spain: 334 Japan: 243 Mexico: 185 Colombia: 77 Kidnapping Canada: 8.67 South Africa: 6.22 U.K: 5.55 Peru: 1.69 Mexico: 1.2 Chile: 0.44 Japan: 0.16 Rape South Africa: 120 Australia: 78 Canada: 73 USA: 30 Spain: 14 France: 14 Mexico: 14 Venezuela: 12 Chile: 8

(Sources: National Security Council 2009, International Source: Nation Master/ CIA, Population: CONAPO 2009, National Average = Media National. Unreported Crime Percentage should be considered when comparing to Western Europe, USA, Canada and Japan)

U.S. Crime Compared to Mexico:

(Sources: FBI.gov, US Dept of State, USA Today, Mexican Government Statistics; Citizens Institute for Crime Studies; Mexicos Public Safety Secretariat; tucsoncitizen.com, Mexican National Public Security System and Council 2009) New Orleans is the most deadly city in the U.S. with 52-64 murders per 100,000 populations (depending on the source). When considering the overreaching nature of the Travel Warning, the impact is similar to NOT visiting Miami because of the violence in New Orleans. Cabo San Lucas is about the same distance from the Mexican violence as Miami is from New Orleans. Cabo San Lucas is located within Baja California (an area listed in the Travel Warning). After New Orleans (a tourist destination), we can compare the remaining top 10, which include Detroit (40.00), St. Louis (40.35), Baltimore (36.99), Newark (29.02), Oakland (25.97), Washington D.C. (24, our Countrys Capital and a major tourist destination) , Buffalo (22), Kansas City (21) and Cleveland (20). These numbers are just a few of the many U.S. cities with much higher murder rates than most Mexico cities and are far more dangerous than the country of Mexicos murder rate of 15 per 100,000 populations. Washington DC is our Nations Capital and a major tourist destination and the ninth worse neighborhood in the U.S. Washington DC is a more dangerous place as far as murder rates go than the entire country of Mexico. Washingtons murder rate is 24.0 per 100,000 people (Mexico is 15). Mexicos Citys murder rate is only 8 per 100,000 people. Furthermore, when comparing the murder rate between Washington DC and Baja California (an area listed in the Travel Warning) we find that Baja California is rated at only 14 per 100,000 people. Based on these numbers, we can conclude that Baja California is safer than Washington DC, and many other cities within the U.S. Jalisco (another area listed in the Travel Warning) has a murder rate of only 12 per 100,000 people. This makes Jalisco another state safer than many U.S. cities. Mexican Tourists murdered in the United States (no stats available at time of research). According to the FBI, 360 murders of other races (non-Caucasian and non-African American), including Mexicans, were murdered in the United States in 2009. This is over 3-times the number of U.S. Tourists murdered in Mexico in 2010. We have single cities within the U.S. that have more murders each year than there are deaths of U.S. citizens from all causes within the entire country of Mexico.