@lbc-mike said:

we are looking a corpus Christi to move to.  maybe  galvanston.  thought Padre island was okay to vacation at?

nope. Do a lot of research. I wouldn't.

Power of Mexican drug cartels in Texas felt hundreds of ...

https://www.rt.com/usa/410003-texas-mexican-drug-cartels-mafia

One of the criminal groups, the Gulf Cartel, has a hold on Texas cities such as McAllen, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Galveston, Houston and Beaumont in the state’s tip and coastal bend area. The group mostly brings in marijuana and cocaine in through between the Rio Grande Valley …

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Police Department Called Away From Fighting Drug Cartels ...

https://cnmnewz.com/2019/03/14/police-department-called-away-from-fighting-drug...

Drug cartels are known for causing chaos in society, but so are college students. The annual influx of college students to South Padre Island in Texas has caused the police to temporarily stop doing work against the cartels and to focus on the behavi

hideous murders south of the border.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/nine-americans-killed-in-ambush-in-mexico

@calfoxwc said:

Sad - concealed carry is a sign of crime times. It's made far, far worse with illegal immigration and drug cartels traveling back and forth across the border.

Here is the saddest irony of all in this whole murderous affair. This guy was retired Navy and they were on a budget on their cross country tour taking a few odd jobs along the way to supplement their income like the old TV show Route 66. They decided to take advantage of the free beach access point near Bob Hall Pier outside of Padre Island National Seashore further down the paved road which has a gated and manned checkpoint like all National Parks, that illegals would never have tried to get past. Unfortunately there is a $20 fee per vehicle for a 7 day stay so they would have been charged $40 for a safer place rather than the just as isolated and similar free area on the beach that they could afford. In fact when I camped out there about 7-8 years ago I asked at the gate if they ever had any major crime reported there and the answer was a definitive "No."

Very sad indeed. A $40 fee cost them their lives. It should have been free for retired military.

The scary part is, about 15 years ago, our big group of family was going to go on another group vacation - S. Padre Island was on the list of places to stop. Except I researched, and as soon as I explained why we should change to another vacation, it was quickly decided to cancel that idea and those plans.

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South Padre Island crime

26,226 per 100,000 residents

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