Over the weekend, Mexico replaced its entire force of customs officers. They also doubled the number of officers. See the article here:
Although couched as a means to increase compliance for revenue purposes, the move clearly has security implications in Mexico's ongoing fight with its drug cartels. Better trainined and equiped customs agents are better able to detect illicit shipments of all types.
The new agents are more highly educated than their predecessors (70% with college degrees vice 10% of the previous force.) Hopefully their pay will match the newly desired level of professionalism.
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