EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The Drug Enforcement Administration on Monday announced the launch of Gatekeeper, a binational collaboration to identify Mexican cartel leaders in smuggling corridors along the Southwest border.

These gatekeepers, also known as “plaza” bosses direct the movement of fentanyl, cocaine, meth and other drugs into the United States and ensure drug profits and American guns flow south into Mexico.

“To advance this effort, DEA has launched a multi-week training and collaboration program at one of its intelligence centers on the Southwest Border. The program brings together Mexican investigators with U.S. law enforcement, prosecutors, defense officials and members of the intelligence community,” DEA said in a news release. “Over the course of several weeks, parti

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