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October 10, 2025

Will a U.S.-Mexico Effort Curb Illegal Arms Trafficking?

The United States and Mexico have launched a task force to fight weapons trafficking. // File Photo: Dmitri via Adobe Stock.

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  • The U.S. and Mexican governments have launched a bilateral task force to address illicit firearms trafficking, the U.S. State Department and Mexican foreign ministry announced Sept. 27. Authorities will use a new, U.S. government-created platform that will track “suspicious air shipments and packages” to aid efforts to interdict illegal weapons, as well as drugs, precursor chemicals and illicit fuel. To what extent might this new bilateral task force affect the flow of illicit arms between the United States and Mexico? What does the establishment of the task force signal about the state of U.S.-Mexican bilateral security cooperation? What more can be done to tackle the problem of organized criminal groups’ access to weapons in both countries?

A

R. Evan Ellis, Latin America research professor at the U.S. Army War College: “The initiative is important but should be understood in the context of the broader U.S.-Mexico Security Implementation Group, finalized during Secretary of State Rubio’s visit to Mexico in September. That framework itself grew out of the U.S.-Mexico bilateral security task force, established at the beginning of the year. As noted by the U.S. State Department announcement, the Security Implementation Group facilitates progress on a broad range of issues including controlling illicit fentanyl, migration, plus going after narcoterrorist groups, fuel theft and other enablers of the illicit economy that prejudice both nations. Within this framework, Mission Firewall expands use of the existing eTrace system to all 32 Mexican states and commits to expanded investigations and…”

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