US EditionU.S., Mexico Reach Deal to Combat Arms Trafficking
Operation Firewall includes a platform to identify suspicious shipments and led to nearly 6,000 guns seized between Nov 2024 and May 2025, officials said.
- On September 30, 2025, Mexico and the United States announced a new bilateral agreement named Operation Firewall to curb arms trafficking into Mexico.
- The agreement follows the 2021 Bicentennial Framework and recent concerns over U.S.-origin guns fueling violence, prompting expanded joint efforts and enhanced coordination.
- The initiative includes increased inspections, real-time information sharing via a new platform, forensic tracing expansions across all Mexican states, and joint investigations of eleven known smuggling routes.
- Mexico's Security Minister Omar García Harfuch reported that 75% of the firearms confiscated during the February to May period originated from the United States, a statistic also recognized by American officials, while Ambassador Johnson highlighted this as a groundbreaking collaboration benefiting both countries.
- This agreement marks the first U.S. commitment to operate within its territory to prevent illegal weapon flows, aiming to weaken organized crime and stop weapons from fueling cartel violence in Mexico.
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Binational agreement to decrease weapons trafficking on the border
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- U.S. and Mexican governments announced a new binational collaboration aimed at stopping weapons and ammunition trafficking along the border. The U.S. Department of State announced last weekend the initiative called Mission Firewall, in which both countries agreed to "dismantle the narcoterrorists, end the fentanyl crisis, strengthen border security, combat illicit finance, prevent fuel theft, and increase investigations …
Los Angeles Times
The Us Will Strengthen Control Operations to Prevent Illegal Arms Entry Into Mexico, Sheinbaum Says.
The authorities of both countries also committed themselves to strengthening the exchange of information and created a “safe platform” to enable the exchange of data on suspicious air packages and cargoes
President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that Donald Trump's government pledged to strengthen the operations of its different agencies to prevent illegal arms trafficking to Mexico, identified by local authorities as one of the causes of violence in vast regions of the country. That was one of the agreements reached at the first meeting held on Friday in the border city of McAllen, Texas, the authorities of both countries that make up the Mexico-Un…
Mexico City.- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Monday that the United States pledged to strengthen the operations of its different agencies to prevent illegal arms trafficking to Mexico, identified by local authorities as one of the causes of violence in vast regions of the country. That was one of the agreements reached at the first meeting held on Friday in the border city of McAllen, Texas, the authorities of both countries th…
Sheinbaum stated that 75 percent of the weapons seized between November 2024 and May 2025 came from legal armories in Arizona, California and Texas.
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