Security & Strategic Review - March 2006

MEXICO-US | Bilateral border security plan agreed. On 3 March in Brownsville, Texas, Mexican Interior Minister Carlos Abascal and US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff signed an 'action plan' to combat violence and improve public safety along the common border. The scheme is described as a multi-step plan for binational coordination during emergency situations, which lays out a commitment to ensure immediate communications and information-sharing between responsible authorities during situations that may have crossborder implications. The action plan also lays the groundwork for ensuring coordinated investigations and detentions of persons believed to be involved in violent activity along the border.

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