|
Repeating The Mexican Gun Lie In Testimony Today
Government efforts to stop the flow of guns from the United States to Mexico have suffered in recent years from having no clear plan to combat gunrunners affiliated with drug cartels, investigators have concluded. The Government Accountability Office, which is delivering its findings to Congress today, noted that federal agencies only recently began coordinating with Mexican counterparts on ways to stop gunrunning along the border.Investigators were critical of two agencies - Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives - for not working together. Until early June, the GAO says, "the U.S. government did not have a strategy that explicitly addressed arms trafficking to Mexico." Investigators said that without a strategy, "individual U.S. agencies have undertaken a variety of activities and projects to combat arms trafficking to Mexico." Citing ATF data, investigator Jess Ford says that over the past three years, more than 90 percent of the firearms traced after being seized in Mexico have come from the U.S. "While it is impossible to know how many firearms are illegally trafficked into Mexico in a given year, over 20,000, or around 87 percent, of firearms seized by Mexican authorities and traced over the past five years originated in the United States," Ford says in testimony prepared for a House subcommittee hearing today. Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-06-18 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=272263 |