Troops patrolling at border won’t help

AlArabiya English

The 10,000 troops at the Mexico-US border won’t help unless drug trade networks are destroyed, John Sandweg, former ICE Director, tells Al Arabiya News.  #US #Mexico

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00:00Anytime you're combating the illegal flow of narcotics,

00:03there are really two different functions that you need to do.

00:05One is interdiction, and that is your frontline officers

00:08who are trying to stop the flow,

00:10whether they're inspecting vehicles

00:11or monitoring illegal cross-border traffic,

00:14so people who are crossing in between the ports of entry.

00:17So there are a variety of tools there,

00:19and in the United States, that is our U.S. Border Patrol.

00:21They're an interdiction force.

00:22They're there to stop smugglers,

00:24catch them as they're trying to enter the United States.

00:26But really, you can't get this work done effectively

00:29unless you also have a robust investigations process.

00:32And so I imagine what the border,

00:34the fentanyl czar in Canada is gonna do

00:36is really try to coordinate

00:38all of their law enforcement investigatory resources

00:41and the prosecutorial resources

00:42to try to dismantle the smuggling organizations.

00:45You know, and I think critical to that, Tom,

00:47is the flow of money, right?

00:48All these drug cartels are doing this for profits,

00:51that they generate tremendous cash profits.

00:53It becomes an incredible challenge for them

00:55to launder that money back, you know,

00:56clean it and get it back into the economic system.

00:59So I, look, with luck, hopefully here, you know,

01:02the U.S., what this will happen

01:03was the Canadian, you know, fentanyl czar

01:05will now start coordinating even more

01:07with the United States law enforcement authorities

01:09that kind of have a cohesive, targeted approach

01:12to dismantle the cartels.

01:13I mean, history has shown us interdiction efforts,

01:1610,000 guardsmen just to stop

01:17the frontline smugglers is insufficient.

01:19You gotta destroy the networks themselves.

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