1、CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress INSIGHTINSIGHTi i New U.S.-Mexico Security Strategy: Issues for Congressional Consideration February 17, 2022 On January 31, 2022, the U.S. and Mexican governments published an action plan for implementing the U.S.-Mexico Bicentennial Frame
2、work for Security, Public Heath, and Safe Communities. Launched at the October 2021 U.S.-Mexico High-Level Security Dialogue (HLSD), the framework is a replacement for the Mrida Initiative, a long-standing security partnership featuring U.S. antidrug and rule-of-law assistance to Mexico. Congress ha
3、s appropriated more than $3.3 billion since FY2007 for the Mrida Initiative, but there has been growing criticism within Congress of the inability of bilateral efforts to reduce organized crime-related violence in Mexico and drug overdoses in the United States. The Bicentennial Frameworks action pla
4、n has three broad pillars (see Figure 1) that Congress could influence through legislation, appropriations, and oversight. The Bicentennial Framework Since taking office in 2018, Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador has criticized the Mrida Initiative and has reduced federal security cooperat
