Money Laundering Missing From Mexico-US Border Security Conversations Griselda Nevarez - VOXXI
go to original April 7, 2013

Former Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard said recent conversations over border security are missing a critical element: money laundering.

Goddard, who’s a Democrat, said money laundering is fueling the Mexican drug cartels’ operations, yet the issue is overshadowed by calls for more fences, boots on the ground and technology along the United States-Mexico border.

He criticized the federal government during a border security forum in Arizona last week, saying, “Our efforts as a country to enforce the laws against illegal money transfers across the border are pathetic.”

“That’s why the cartels are so successful,” he added. “What they are able to do essentially is buy any technology, hire any troops. They have the best-trained and best-paid operatives in the world, and they are the ones who make a mockery of our defense on the border.”

Goddard is the author of the report “How to Fix a Broken Border: Follow the Money” released in October 2012 by the Morrison Institute. As Arizona attorney general in 2010, he was involved in a cartel money laundering investigation that resulted in a seizure of $20 million that came from drug sales in the U.S.

Now he is calling on the federal government to make combating money laundering a top priority in efforts to secure the border.

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