The 10,000 troops at the Mexico-US border won’t help unless drug trade networks are destroyed, John Sandweg, former ICE Director, tells Al Arabiya News.
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00:00Anytime you're combating the illegal flow of narcotics,
00:03there are really two different functions that you need to do.
00:05One is interdiction, and that is your frontline officers
00:08who are trying to stop the flow,
00:10whether they're inspecting vehicles
00:11or monitoring illegal cross-border traffic,
00:14so people who are crossing in between the ports of entry.
00:17So there are a variety of tools there,
00:19and in the United States, that is our U.S. Border Patrol.
00:21They're an interdiction force.
00:22They're there to stop smugglers,
00:24catch them as they're trying to enter the United States.
00:26But really, you can't get this work done effectively
00:29unless you also have a robust investigations process.
00:32And so I imagine what the border,
00:34the fentanyl czar in Canada is gonna do
00:36is really try to coordinate
00:38all of their law enforcement investigatory resources
00:41and the prosecutorial resources
00:42to try to dismantle the smuggling organizations.
00:45You know, and I think critical to that, Tom,
00:47is the flow of money, right?
00:48All these drug cartels are doing this for profits,
00:51that they generate tremendous cash profits.
00:53It becomes an incredible challenge for them
00:55to launder that money back, you know,
00:56clean it and get it back into the economic system.
00:59So I, look, with luck, hopefully here, you know,
01:02the U.S., what this will happen
01:03was the Canadian, you know, fentanyl czar
01:05will now start coordinating even more
01:07with the United States law enforcement authorities
01:09that kind of have a cohesive, targeted approach
01:12to dismantle the cartels.
01:13I mean, history has shown us interdiction efforts,
01:1610,000 guardsmen just to stop
01:17the frontline smugglers is insufficient.
01:19You gotta destroy the networks themselves.