"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat
U.S. congressmen presented a bill that plans to increase collaboration to identify, target, break and dismantle criminal organizations.
US congressmen presented a bill "to disarm the drug cartels" by controlling arms trafficking to Mexico, one of the issues creating tensions with the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
In every high-level meeting between the two countries, the Mexican government complains that it has only one armory in the entire country but each year it registers almost 30,000 deaths by firearms and more than half a million U.S.-made weapons are trafficked.
In addition, at least 70% of the firearms recovered from crime scenes in Mexico are traced back to the United States.
To combat the problem, eleven Democratic congressmen ask the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, to increase "interagency collaboration to identify, target, break and dismantle transnational criminal organizations responsible for exporting firearms and ammunition from the United States to Mexico".
They also ask for greater coordination with Mexican agencies and to submit annual reports on the issue.
Authorities from both countries exchange weapons for fentanyl
Authorities in both countries claim that criminal organizations operating in Mexico buy firearms and ammunition from US-based retailers or exchange them for drugs such as fentanyl, an opiate that is causing havoc in the United States.
"For years, U.S. guns have fueled violence, instability and forced migration" in Latin America and the Caribbean, Democratic Congressman Joaquin Castro said in a statement.
"The United States can do more to prevent the weapons we manufacture from getting into the hands of criminal organizations that smuggle fentanyl and other deadly drugs into the United States," he added.
His colleague Mike Thompson agreed, in the same statement, that fighting crime along the border with Mexico involves "addressing the export of U.S. weapons."
The administration of Democratic President Joe Biden claims to have taken action against this scourge.
Mexico, for its part, filed a civil lawsuit in 2021 against the main U.S. arms manufacturers, accusing them of "negligent and illicit trade".
Good to see these Democratic congresspeople so hard at work.
ReplyDeleteAnnual reports from Mayorkas will certainly take care of the problem.
Better than Republicans. They could not even elect a speaker,too a long time,threatening to shutdown the govt. Most of their time spent on useless committee hearings about Hunter Biden's laptop and impeaching Joe Biden with no evidence that they quietly set it aside. Clowns.
DeleteSo Congress needs a bill to control arms trafficking to Mexico? What a shit show.
ReplyDeleteDid you not forget Hablador requested, that the US do something to stop guns from entering Mexico. Actually what he should have done, is hire Mexican customs to check what comes into Mexico.
DeleteNaw the u.s blames Mexico for all the drugs . They should pay more boarder agents to check what comes into the U.S
DeleteLet the Mexican marines go in the U.S and arrest the gun manufacturers and those that sell guns. Wait let me fix my double moral let’s build the wall and invade Mexico!
ReplyDeleteX- ray. & search all Mex bound traffic for valuables & weapons. Then tackle the Guat border, then whack-a-mole.
ReplyDeleteHow about...don't sell the guns. Help Americans out. Everything is so expensive. America wants to blame everyone
ReplyDeleteNever will happened and if it did it wont stop mexican criminals from getting guns and ammo elsewhere like from the mexican armed forces. But fact is republican assholes dont care if americans get killed in mass shootings every other day much so why wld they give a fuck about mexicans killing mexicans. The probably love the carnage in mexico.
ReplyDeleteShut up clown, your the problem with these dumb ass gun rights. Take guns out of the hand of all citizens period. No American citizen needs a gun in any circumstance.
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