I've paid transito bribes.
I tried to negotiate them down, they could see i didn't have much, some did lower their price.
None of them took me to jail for no license, insurance, junky rv, or pulling two carnival rides in tandem.
Try that north of the border and see how far you get before you are putting your shoelaces back into your shoes and walking home.

They play the same game down there that we play up here, except with less money and with a population that knows all of the armed gangs are enemies of the gente.
Viva, Magon!

That said, I've also lived in Acapulco and read the newspapers.
The vecinos said, 'Meh, they were bad people.'
So, yes, once you have a bad rep there are likely to be problems.
Thereby increasing the numbers of criminals moving north.

It is evil to encourage people to break the law and live in this country like slave labor.

I agree, we have to free ourselves before we can free others.
Are we free when everything we do only increases the resources of our oppressors?
Once we are free, the world will truly become one big, blue, marble, imo.