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The Obama Administration announced plans for tighter security along the Mexican border yesterday as it voiced fears that violence from a growing drugs war would spill over into the United States.
Today Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, begins a 48-hour visit to Mexico, where officials say the US needs to wake up to a “shared responsibility” for a conflict that has claimed more than 10,000 lives south of the border since 2006, including the brutal murder, torture and even ritual decapitation of security forces. The death toll of 6,290 last year alone was more than the total number of US military casualties over seven years of fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Next week Janet Napolitano, the Homeland Security Secretary, and Eric Holder, the Attorney-General, will attend a conference in Cuernavaca on gun running. President Obama will visit Mexico on April 16-17 after he returns from his trip to Europe and Turkey.
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Ms Napolitano acknowledged that, as the Administration showers attention on America’s southern neighbour, one of the priorities is to “guard against an increase in violence in the United States as a result of the actions undertaken in Mexico”. For instance, the number of kidnappings in the Phoenix area soared to 366 last year, an increase blamed almost entirely on Mexican drug cartels.
The Homeland Security chief announced a doubling in the size of both of its border enforcement task forces and a trebling in the number of intelligence analysts along the southwest border as well as a fourfold increase in liaison officers working with Mexican law enforcement officials.
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Mrs Clinton will have to tread softly when she arrives in Mexico, where the Government is smarting over comments from US officials suggesting that it is in danger of becoming a “failed state”.
