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AC: Mexico Security Affirmative 16
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1AC: Mexico Security Affirmative 162) The U.S. can provide economic assistance through USAID targeted at crime prevention in Mexico, and empirically these programs reduce violence. SEELKE AND FINKLEA, 13 [Clare, Specialist in Latin American Affairs; Kristin, Analyst in Domestic Security with Congressional Research Service; “U.S.-Mexican Security Cooperation: The Mérida Initiative and Beyond,” 1/14, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41349.pdf] In April 2011, the U.S. and Mexican governments formally approved a bi-national pillar four strategy. 109 The strategy focuses on three objectives: (1) strengthening federal civic planning capacity to prevent and reduce crime; (2) bolstering the capacity of state and local governments to implement crime prevention and reduction activities; and (3) increasing engagement with at-risk youth. 110 U.S.-funded pillar four activities complement the work of the Mexico’s National Center for Crime Prevention and Citizen Participation, an entity within the Interior Department that implemented projects in high crime areas in 237 cities in 2012 where local authorities were making similar investments in crime prevention. In support of this new strategy, USAID launched a three-year, $15 million Crime and Violence Prevention program in nine target communities identified by the Mexican government in Ciudad Juárez, Monterrey, Nuevo León, and Tijuana, Baja California. The program supports the development of community strategies to reduce crime and violence in the target localities, including outreach to at-risk youth, improved citizen-police collaboration, and partnerships with private sector enterprises. More recently, USAID awarded $10 million in local grants to six civil society organizations for innovative crime prevention projects that engage at-risk youth and their families. USAID also supports a $1 million evaluation of crime in the target communities that will help the U.S. and Mexican governments understand the risk factors contributing directly to increased violence and enable both governments to identify successful models for replication. 2AC Inherency 171) Obama currently has an inconsistent policy towards violence in Mexico, Their evidence is only about total money given, not about specific policies like the plan. We are not advocating the Merida Initiative; we are advocating a new policy. Extend our 1AC WALSER, MCNEILL AND ZUCKERMAN evidence. 2) No case would meet their interpretation because we give some money to Mexico, Cuba and Venezuela in the status quo. The plan just needs to be a substantial increase in that assistance, not a start from zero. 3) Obama’s current policies are insufficient and are failing to contain violence and corruption. WALSER, 10 [Ray, PhD., senior policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation; “U.S. Strategy Against Mexican Drug Cartels: Flawed and Uncertain,” 4/26, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/04/us-strategy-against-mexican-drug-cartels-flawed-and-uncertain] Barbarous murders, military-like firefights, rampant corruption, a traumatized citizenry, and high-stakes political gamesmanship frame Mexico’s ongoing challenges. Despite some successes, the high levels of violence in Mexico, the slow pace of law enforcement reform, persistent and deep-rooted corruption, and a potential loss of public confidence in the Mexican government’s ability and will to sustain the drug fight are warning signs that the Obama Administration should not ignore. The Obama Administration has continued a cooperative assistance program established by President George W. Bush and known as the Mérida Initiative. The Administration has also committed to “dual containment,” securing the U.S.–Mexico border and heartland against Mexican drug-trafficking organizations (DTOs) or cartels operating in the U.S. while attempting to reduce substantially the illegal movement of guns and bulk transfers of cash from the U.S. into Mexico that feed the cartel’s lust for profits and power. These efforts are important but insufficient. 2AC Harms: A/t - #1 “Cooperation Now” [1/2] 181) Mexico is failing to implement reforms that will decrease violence, and this is driving the U.S. and Mexico apart. More assistance is needed to create real results. Extend our 1AC ROBERTS AND WALSER evidence. 2) More economic assistance needs to be sent in the short-term to improve cooperation. WALSER, 10 [Ray, PhD., senior policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation; “U.S. Strategy Against Mexican Drug Cartels: Flawed and Uncertain,” 4/26, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/04/us-strategy-against-mexican-drug-cartels-flawed-and-uncertain] Overall, the levels of cooperation and trust appear to be improving, but preserving these gains will be critical for the long-term sustainability of joint cooperation.[29] A major issue with the Mérida Initiative has been the painfully slow delivery of promised assistance. A December 2009 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that at the end of FY 2009 (September 30, 2009), a disappointing 3 percent of appropriated assistance had been delivered to the Mexican government.[30] The Obama Administration argues that long lead times are required in order to allow the letting of contracts for aircraft and other expensive, high-tech acquisitions, inevitably slowing the delivery process. The Administration managed to deliver five Bell helicopters to Mexico on December 15, 2009.[31] The disbursement of Mérida funds has also been the subject of disputes between Congress and the Administration over human rights. 3) Mexico needs new assistance programs to continue cooperating on security. WALSER AND ZUCKERMAN, 13 [Ray, PhD., Senior Policy Analyst for Latin America at Heritage Foundation; and Jessica, Research Associate in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at Heritage Foundation; “U.S.–Mexico Border: Tighter Border Security Requires Mexico’s Cooperation,” 2/20, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/02/us-mexico-border-tighter-border-security-requires-mexico-s-cooperation] The Mexican government has additional projects on the drawing board that include a gendarme force that is able to police rural areas and, potentially, a border patrol. Mexico also looks to stem the flow of Central Americans across its southern border, many of whom have the U.S. as their intended destination. Both the U.S. and Mexico are concerned about the capacity of criminal organizations to weaken certain Central American nations to the point of “state failure.” Both sides share a common goal of dismantling the criminal conveyor belts that thrive off illegal flows of people or drugs to the U.S. As Congress works through these issues, it will need continued assurances that Mexico will play its part as a responsible neighbor. Congress therefore should work to strengthen incentives that speed the legal movements of peoples and goods from abroad while deterring illegal movements. This is a daunting task. If projections hold, for example, Mexico could surpass Canada as the U.S.’s top trading partner over the next decade. Integrated, cross-border supply chains continue to put as much as 40 percent of American content into Mexican-made exports. 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