US to boost Mexico border defence

The US government is to increase security at the country's border with Mexico, in an attempt to combat drug cartels, the White House has announced.

The number of immigration, customs and anti-drug agents and gun law enforcement officers will be increased, officials said. Some 8,000 people have died in Mexico over the past two years amid bitter turf wars between rival drugs gangs.

The south-west US has also seen rising violence and kidnappings. Gun crackdown Agents from the Department of Homeland Security, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives (ATF) will be sent to the border to region to help deal with the issue.

Source: BBC News

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