NBC12 News, Weather Sports, Traffic, and Programming Guide for Richmond, VA | - Home. National and Local Weather Forecast, Hurricane, Radar and Report. U.S.-Mexico border isn't so dangerous - World news - Americas. MEXICO CITY — It's one of the safest parts of America, and it's getting safer. It's the U.S. -Mexico border, and even as politicians say more federal troops are needed to fight rising violence, government data obtained by The Associated Press show it actually isn't so dangerous after all. The top four big cities in America with the lowest rates of violent crime are all in border states: San Diego, Phoenix, El Paso and Austin, according to a new FBI report.
And an in-house Customs and Border Protection report shows that Border Patrol agents face far less danger than street cops in most U.S. cities. The Customs and Border Protection study, obtained with a Freedom of Information Act request, shows 3 percent of Border Patrol agents and officers were assaulted last year, mostly when assailants threw rocks at them.
That compares with 11 percent of police officers and sheriff's deputies assaulted during the same period, usually with guns or knives. "Violence in the vicinity of the U.S.