As we reported earlier, homeland security is ruining international underaged drinking for everybody down in the Spring Break town of South Padre Island, Texas. Mexican bartenders are starving, people! But the borders’ economic woes don’t end there. In addition to U.S. Customs agents being all, “Where’s your passport,” when kids come back from Mexico, there’s also that pesky matter of drug cartel wars that have been going on all along the border for the past year.

ABC News published this photograph of former MTV Real Worlders Clyde “Ace” Amerson from the Paris cast and what looks like David Burns from the Seattle cast, although the caption labels him simply as “Mike.” (What? Do they all live in some retired Real Worlders halfway house together?) The guys are totally staying on the American side of things, drinking American beer with some American Budweiser girls, mmmkay? Guess the real world ain’t so cool when the Mexican Mafia stops being polite. And Ace and co. aren’t the only ones who aren’t about the border anymore:

“I’ve heard tons of (stuff) about the border,” said [Paul] Bonenberger, 21, two beers in hand and surrounded by hundreds of Midwestern spring breakers on the beach. “I’ve heard it’s unsafe. I’m not about the border anymore, it’s not worth the risk.”

Underaged—sorry “21” year-old—college boys not about the border??? Is this the kind of America we want to live in? We could really use some of that Barack Obama change right about now.

Spring Breakers Fear Mexico Border Town [ABC News]