'All of the above' approach needed to defeat Mexican drug cartels WashTimesOpEd
” policy. This policy is the most effective border security policy of our lifetimes and greatly disrupted the cartels’ pipeline of human and drug trafficking.
More recently, the state of Texas took similar action when Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the manual inspection of all tractor-trailers crossing the border, which noticeably slowed processing at the ports of entry. Legitimate commerce fromwas delayed because Texas could no longer take chances that these trailers contained smuggled migrants or illicit drugs, which put pressure on the Mexican government to address the situation.
Third, the social media and fintech companies whose platforms the cartels use to conduct their trafficking of migrants andcan play an important role in this effort. These companies need to step up and develop more robust protocols to determine how the cartels take advantage of their platforms and what they can do to prevent further criminal activities. Current safeguards do not go far enough to prevent these platforms from being used for nefarious purposes.
Border security is national security, and it is time to get serious about the growing threat posed by the Mexican cartels. The old playbook cannot get the job done, and an all-of-the-above approach is an effective new strategy to defeat the cartels, keep• Chad Wolf is the former acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and executive director and chair of the Center for Homeland Security and Immigration at the America First Policy Institute.
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