President Donald Trump has long accused Mexico of sending migrants and drugs to the United States.
But in an extraordinary case that was heard before the United States Supreme Court on Tuesday, Mexico argues that the main cause of its problems with crime and immigration is in fact American arms manufacturers.
The Mexican government claims that firearms manufacturers in the United States know that their products are trading to Mexico and that they deliberately design and market weapons to attract this illegal and profitable market. An estimated 70 % of the weapons used in crimes in Mexico can be tracked to the United States, where they are often legally purchased and smuggled south across the border.
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If Mexico is responsible, as the White House argues for drugs and migrants crossing the border to the United States, will weapons manufactures bear the responsibility for weapons in the other direction? Mexico tells the Supreme Court yes.
The oral arguments of the Supreme Court come in a great moment in bilateral relations. The United States implemented a 25 % tariff on Mexican goods on Tuesday, and both countries collected its common borders to reduce migration and drug trafficking, and Washington has identified Mexican Cartlatt as foreign terrorist organizations.
Jonathan Lowe, President and Founder of Global Action on Arms Violence, says the issue, Smith and Weson Brands, are you.
“The United States will be beneficial or more of success in this lawsuit like Mexico,” says Mr. Louis, who works on behalf of Mexico. In Mexico, violence causes kartel migration across the border. It facilitates drug trafficking to the United States … to prevent all of this from happening, you should stop the crime match pipeline coming from the American weapons industry across the border to the hands of the cartridge. “
Easy access to guns
Cartile’s violence in Mexico has always been a stigma on the country’s reputation for a warm and wicked culture. More than 30,000 people have been killed annually in Mexico over the past six years, often amid the headlines of the terrible civilian ambush and the shooting between the well -armed criminals and the army.
It is difficult to obtain a weapon in Mexico. There are only two official rifles stores in the entire country, both of which are run by the Mexican Ministry of Defense. Mexicans should pass a psychological test, drug examination, and check the wide background – a process that can last for about two months – and then you should enter an army base to already enter a store.
On the other hand, there are more than 75,000 weapons agents in the United States.
Alejandro Silorio Alcantara, the main legal advisor at the Mexican Foreign Ministry at the time, says the idea of this issue was the first time in the 2019 collective shooting in El Passo, Texas, Wal -Mart, says Alejandro Silorio Alcantara, the main legal advisor to the Mexican Foreign Ministry at the time. More than the 23 people who were killed in the shooting were Mexican citizens.
Marcelo Eporard, then, threatened to open a terrorist investigation, while Mr. Silorio was in contact with Mr. Louis at one time, and discussed how they could prosecute the store who sold arms.
After that came as Kolakanazo, or the Battle of Kolakan. Two months after the shooting of Wall Mart, the Mexican Armed Forces seized the drug -affiliated son in Sinaloa Cartel, former king Joaquin “El Chapo”, Joseman, in the northwestern city of Colikan.
Instead of the moment you are a victory in the Mexico war against drug gangs, it has become a disaster. Kartel members who use automatic weapons prevented the main arteries throughout the city, and soon surpassed the soldiers. It was overcome, the government launched the son of El Chapo, Ovidio Guzmán López.
In broad daylight, the cartel was showing the strength of its fire. We realize [the legal issue] “More than a single gun seller used in a terrorist attack targeting Mexicans. He says the legal strategy is” commercial neglect “, but for all weapons, all the damage caused by weapons trafficking from the United States.
Mexican shooting with American weapons
The Federal Public Prosecutor worked in Mexico, the American alcohol office, tobacco, firearms and explosives (ATF) together to follow the origin and number of firearms in Mexico coming from or over the United States for years.
The Federal Public Prosecutor found that 70 % to 90 % of firearms are followed after the recovery in Mexico originated or passed across the United States, although ATF regretted the average, by 68 %. Between 2016 and 2022, ATF set a 105 % increase in US rifles in Mexico. The presence of the American pistols in Mexico with 75 % in that same period.
ATF routinely alerts borne makers when the firearms they sell at the crime scene in Mexico are recovered.
Mr. Louis asserts that 90 % of American arms stores are doing their work “legally, safely and responsible.” “The problem is that you have a small percentage of arms dealers who will sell to anyone if they earn money. … and the factory is happy to use these merchants and they have no kind of safe sales practices or training required from their sellers in the direction of the river course, although they know that they are providing the crime pipeline.”
He argues that this issue falls into an exception in protecting the legal trade law in weapons, which protects the manufacturers of weapons from responsibility when using one of their weapons in a crime. Mexico argues that the Muslim maker is “help and incitement” to smuggle weapons into the cartals.
Mexico exceeded?
Mexico – with the support of dozens of victims of Cartel’s violence in the Amicus Support Result – requires monetary damage equivalent to approximately $ 10 billion, and a court order requires firearms manufacturers to change their sales practices.
Arms rights groups argue that Mexico is trying to bankrupt the American firearms industry and undermine the second amendment.
The US House of Representatives argued in December last year in the Amicus summary that the federal arms industry regulation was within its scope. It is noted that Congress has already refused specifically the adoption of elements that argue with Mexico, such as requesting the integration of locking techniques in all weapons.
However, the presence of automatic weapons – the killing rate in Mexico – has been launched since 2005, after the American ban on offensive weapons ended, experts say.
Few believe that stopping arms trafficking alone will resolve Mexico violence, but it is an important start.
“We are cooperating with the United States in bilateral efforts; we are part of the Arms Trade Treaty. There is a lot that we do, but then [sale] “The firearms in the United States are still neglect, and trafficking will continue,” says Mr. Silorio.
However, he admits that some victories have occurred in this continuous battle.
“There is more awareness, and more attention to the damage caused by American weapons in Mexico. … I think this effort is already a success.”
