Sec. 101. Authorizations to strengthen Mexican law enforcement capacity to disrupt fentanyl supply chains
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Notwithstanding section 660 of the Foreign Affairs Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2420 ), the Secretary of State, acting through the Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, is authorized to carry out a program to build the capacity of Mexican law enforcement agencies to prevent the transit, trafficking, and distribution of fentanyl and its precursor chemicals and analogues into the United States from Mexico. The program authorized by subsection
(a)shall include projects and activities, at a minimum, that address— canine unit support for drug detection; disrupting fentanyl trafficking in express consignment, as well as in postal, shipping, and transportation operations conducted by the Government and private business sectors; forensic chemist information exchanges, equipment, and drug profiling; efforts meant to increase Mexican Federal and state laboratory forensic accreditation to identify fentanyl and other drugs; efforts to increase the number of handheld synthetic drug detection devices; the provision of equipment and training related to identifying and dismantling clandestine laboratories that produce synthetic drugs; efforts proven to reduce diversion of precursor chemicals from licit to illicit purposes; precursor chemical information sharing between governments and among various agencies; maritime interdiction of synthetic drugs; cargo container control and inspection; and chemical industry mapping. There is authorized to be appropriated $64,000,000 to carry out the programs described in subsection (a). The Secretary of State, acting through the Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, shall prioritize Mexico in all efforts of the Department of State to combat international trafficking of fentanyl and other synthetic drugs by carrying out programs and activities in Mexico and throughout the greater Latin American region, in consultation with the Government of Mexico and other relevant governments, with respect to the following: Providing technical assistance and equipment, as appropriate, to strengthen the capacity of Mexican law enforcement agencies with respect to combating the trafficking of fentanyl and other synthetic drugs. Carrying out exchange programs for governmental and nongovernmental personnel, such as programs conducted at the International Law Enforcement Academy in El Salvador and at other locations in the United States and Mexico, to provide educational and professional development on disrupting fentanyl supply chains, interdicting fentanyl and precursor chemicals used to produce fentanyl, and other synthetic drugs at seaports and on land and permanently dismantling transnational drug trafficking organization operations. Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs shall submit to the relevant congressional committees an unclassified report, that may include a classified annex, detailing— efforts taken by the various law enforcement agencies in Mexico to disrupt the flow of fentanyl and its precursor chemicals; and the extent to which any part of the Government of Mexico has refused to work with the United States, or otherwise obstructed, paused, or unnecessarily delayed bilateral security cooperation with respect to disrupting the flow of fentanyl and its precursor chemicals. The Office of Knowledge Management of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs shall use monthly and yearly statistics indicating the number of United States citizens who die from the consumption or ingestion of fentanyl and other illicit narcotics— as the primary monitoring and evaluation metric of the efforts led by such bureau in Mexico; and to gauge whether bilateral efforts to disrupt synthetic drug production and precursor chemical transit throughout Mexico are achieving measurable desired impacts, with a rising number of United States deaths indicating a failure to achieve such impacts. The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, in its monitoring and evaluation practices, may not use data related to drug seizures or clandestine laboratory raids in Mexico as a substitute for the data described in paragraph (1). Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter, the Secretary of State, acting through the Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, shall submit a report to the relevant congressional committees indicating whether, based on the statistics described in paragraph (1), its Mexico programs (including projects and activities under the program authorized by subsection (a)) are achieving desired outcomes, including a ranking of all such programs from most effective to least effective.
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Authorizations to strengthen Mexican law enforcement capacity to disrupt fentanyl supply chains
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