Overview
- Roberto Velasco and U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson led the second session of the bilateral Security Implementation Group on December 11 at Mexico’s foreign ministry.
- Officials reviewed progress under the Border Security and Law Enforcement Cooperation Program and agreed to continue periodic technical meetings on both sides of the border.
- Mexico committed to expand ATF eTrace use and ballistic identification across all 32 states, while the United States will stand up a secure system to exchange data on suspicious cargo.
- Workstreams target arms trafficking, fentanyl and other illicit drugs, illicit finance, fuel theft, irregular migration, and strengthened investigations and prosecutions.
- Participants reaffirmed cooperation principles of sovereignty, shared but differentiated responsibility, mutual trust, and collaboration without subordination, with U.S. agencies from State, Treasury, Justice, Defense, NSC and the Homeland Security Council in attendance.