Drug-related border crime on the U.S. Mexico border is not showing any signs of slowing up.  More than 3,400 people have been killed this year due to increasing corruption and power of drug cartels in Mexico.  According to El Universal, a national Mexican newspaper, a drug war related death occurs every 48 minutes in Mexico.  The Associated press estimates at least 23,000 people have been murdered in Mexico since Mexican President Felipe Calderón declared war on all drug cartels in 2006. Presdient Calderón has requested help from the United States military to aid him in his efforts to stop drug trafficking between Mexico and the U.S.  Calderón claims that the U.S. needs to share responsibility because of America’s mass consumption of drugs that feed the problem by driving more money and inevitably more power to the drug cartels.  In a recent visit to the nation in March, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledged the need to accept responsibility and to provide support to the Mexican government.  “We know that the demand for drugs drives much of this illicit trade, and that guns purchased in the U.S. are used to facilitate violence here in Mexico. The United States must, and is,…