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For years, the US and Mexican governments have ineffectually sought to control the Mexican drug cartels that are operating near the US southern border and in various cities within the US. Despite those efforts, Mexican drug cartel-caused incidents of violence and mayhem have become commonplace on both sides of the border. A typical example would be the kidnapping and murder of American tourists by the Gulf Cartel members in Matamoros, Mexico on March 6, 2023. Many tragic incidents in recent years in various cities on US soil can also be directly attributed to the Mexican cartels.
Over the last two years, the failure of US officials to properly control and monitor the flow of people and materials across the southern border has, for all practical purposes, opened the US southern border and brought increasing throngs of indigent, undocumented migrants to the border.
That recent dramatically increased flow has generated literally billions of dollars for the criminal Mexican drug cartels from human trafficking, drug smuggling, the processing of undocumented individuals and from extortion conditions imposed on the immigrants and their families. Worse, the recent greatly increased flow of dangerous fentanyl into the United States by the criminal Mexican drug cartels has literally caused the deaths of tens of thousands of US citizens!
Frustrated voices call for ill-defined “surgical military strikes” against the cartels, foolishly suggesting that as the way the military element of national power might be used. Critics justifiably react with horror at such an idea. But, would a mutually-negotiated operational plan between the two countries for use of modern intelligence-gathering and surveillance technology, coupled with a focused employment of discrete military force, aided by US Special Forces and DEA expertise, not achieve a desired result? It is certainly worth a well-planned and executed try!
Obviously, the corruption within the Mexican government may complicate the effort, but the situation demands action. Curbing the insatiable US demand for drugs is an even more vexing fundamental problem. Both need to be confronted.
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