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🧵 Some key data points regarding the debate and the brewing crisis regarding fentanyl trafficking and law-enforcement collaboration between #Mexico and the US.
Yes, the current Mexican government has dismantled most of the bilateral cooperation mechanisms painstakingly ...1/8
Yes, the current Mexican government has dismantled most of the bilateral cooperation mechanisms painstakingly ...1/8
..built after 2007. And yes, its public security paradigm is both misguided and broken.
Nonetheless:
-#Migrants, #refugees and #asylum seekers are not part of the problem; stop stigmatizing them further by linking them to trafficking flows. In FY2022, CBP data shows that ..2/8
Nonetheless:
-#Migrants, #refugees and #asylum seekers are not part of the problem; stop stigmatizing them further by linking them to trafficking flows. In FY2022, CBP data shows that ..2/8
..84% of all seizures of fentanyl occurring on the border with #Mexico took place IN Ports of Entry (PoEs), NOT between PoEs, on tractor-trailer trucks and passenger vehicles.
-Saying that Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) are the main culprit of the ..3/8
-Saying that Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) are the main culprit of the ..3/8
..fentanyl being smuggled is also a partial X-Ray of the problem. Fentanyl and precursors also come into US maritime ports. And smuggled fentanyl across the border with #Mexico is often brought into the US by US citizens: data from the US Sentencing Commission shows that ...4/8
..between 2017 and 2021, 86% of fentanyl trafficking offenders were US citizens.
-With the raging debate in the US over #assaultweapons, most commentators and politicians in the US tend to forget that illicitly sold arms in US gun shops and gun shows and then trafficked in ...5/8
-With the raging debate in the US over #assaultweapons, most commentators and politicians in the US tend to forget that illicitly sold arms in US gun shops and gun shows and then trafficked in ...5/8
..the other direction, across the border into Mexico, provide TCO's there with the firepower to push back against Mexican local, state, and federal level law-enforcement.
-Both governments need to reach a common and shared diagnosis regarding trafficking routes, production ...6/8
-Both governments need to reach a common and shared diagnosis regarding trafficking routes, production ...6/8
..patterns and levels of purity of fentanyl being produced and smuggled from #Mexico into the US.
-In this bilateral relationship, common challenges can only be met with common solutions. Both Mexico and US politicians need to stop assigning national blame to transnational ...7/8
-In this bilateral relationship, common challenges can only be met with common solutions. Both Mexico and US politicians need to stop assigning national blame to transnational ...7/8
..problems; these problems can only be met under a paradigm of shared responsibility. And despite what some would suggest, it is cooperation that fosters trust, not the other way around.
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