The United States is giving the Mexican government access to a computer database designed to trace weapons being smuggled across the border. The U.S. Attorney General said when the Mexican police seize weapons; the system will notify The U.S. Then target the dealers sending them to the border. Armed drug dealers are a major concern with Mexican authorities. There is a bill in congress called the Merida Initiative that would give $1.4 billion dollars to help the U.S.-Mexican anti-drug plan.
This bill will aid in stopping the trafficking of guns and drugs being smuggled across the border. The e-Trace database as it is known is proposed to be added to all U.S. consulates throughout Mexico. By Mexico tracking the information, they can give that information to U.S. officials, arrests can be made within our borders and stop them in their tracks. General Eduardo Medina Mora is in agreement with this effort and hopes it will begin to stop the outbreaks of violence that occur in Mexico on a daily basis. The situation is horrible.
People have been using “desperate tactics” such as throwing rocks, diverting the attention of border patrol, while smugglers run through the border with drugs in backpacks. It's obvious that building a tin fence for miles is not the answer much more thought and action needs to be taken on this issue. With recent developments of violence and border patrols involvement is evidence that the problem is getting increasingly worse and worse with more deaths to surely follow. Well armed cartel from south of the Rio Grande has threaded to retaliate after a new enforcement push to stop the influx of contraband. This needs to stop and it is hoped that this new bill will aid in that effort.
