Second Meeting of the U.S.-Mexico High-Level Security Dialogue
October 13, 2022
Institutional Context
In October 2021, the United States and Mexico created the Bicentennial Framework for Security. Building on past security cooperation efforts, this Framework establishes a long-term approach for binational actions to pursue the safety and security of both societies. This mechanism is a joint binational effort to protect human rights, share information and best practices, prosecute those who violate the law, and regularly and transparently evaluate the impact of those efforts. The Framework comprises three goals: protecting people, preventing transborder crime, and pursuing criminal networks.
Second Meeting of the U.S.-Mexico High-Level Security Dialogue
On October 13th, 2022, Mexican and American high level officials met to discuss and review implementations of the U.S.-Mexico Bicentennial Framework for Security, Public Health, and Safe Communities. Both administrations have taken actions to implement the Framework through: expanding collaboration to reduce substance use disorder and its consequences; building forensic capacity to identify victims of forced disappearance; improving law enforcement and justice services for gender-based violence victims; strengthening the shared commitment to protect journalists from criminal organizations; implementing mirrored patrols along the shared border; and sharing information and law enforcement cooperation.
On behalf of Mexico, the meeting was attended by the Secretary of National Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval; the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Rosa Icela Rodríguez; the Secretary of the Navy, José Rafael Ojeda; the Head of the National Migration Institute, Francisco Garduño; the Head of the National Customs Agency of Mexico, Juan de Dios Vázquez; the Head of the Federal Prosecutor's Office, Félix Arturo Medina; the Head of the National Search Commission, Karla Quintana; and Mexico's Attorney General, Alejandro Gertz Manero.
On behalf of the United States attended the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken; the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas; the U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland; the USAIS Manager, Samantha Power; the Senior Director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, Juan González; Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the Department of State, Todd Robinson; the Acting Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Ricardo Zúñiga; the Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Rahul Gupta; and Treasury Department Under Secretary, Brian Nelson.
