Part one of term paper
For the past 14 months, agents from the DEA, FBI and U.S. Customs Service who were to form the backbone of the U.S. portion of the force have refused to cross the border because they are not allowed to carry weapons in Mexico. And at least five senior Mexican officers involved in the program have been arrested on suspicion of taking money fr ...

Part two of term paper
... other north Mexican towns, were seen as vital to increasing the flow of information between the nations' counter-drug forces along the 2,000-mile border. U.S. and Mexican officials agreed that the performance of the task forces would be a yardstick by which to measure cooperation between the two nations, and monitoring their success was included formally in the White House's National Drug Control Strategy report issued last month. "Regretfully, [the task forces] were never really implemented ...