Highlights of US Border Security Plan with Mexico
Doubling Border Enforcement Security Task (BEST) Forces.
Tripling Homeland Security intelligence analysts working along US-Mexico border.
Quadrupling US Border Liaison Officers working with Mexican law enforcement entities.
Drug Enforcement Agency adding 16 agents to Southwest border divisions. Now, 29 percent of DEA's 1,171 agents are now in the Southwest border field divisions
Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco, Firearms Relocating 100 personnel to the border in the next 45 days, to fortify its efforts designed to stop gun-running to Mexico.
Expanding treatment capacity of US drug courts, including $63.9 million in 2009 budget.
$700 million budgeted for 2008 and 2009 for enhancing Mexican law enforcement and judicial capacity under the Merida Initiative.
Source: White House press office
Read this interesting story from the Christian Science Monitor. It givens some details and the goals of this new program.
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