An Overview of
Federal Drug Control Programs
on the Southwest Border

Department of State
Budget Summary

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INL provided Mexico $2.5 million in FY 1996 International Narcotics Control (INC) funding, including $250,000 directed at the Mexican treasury ministry's anti-money laundering program. It has budgeted $6 million for Mexico in FY 1997 and $8 million in FY 1998. INL also funds law enforcement training through centrally-funded training programs with DEA, Customs and Coast Guard. INL's International Criminal Justice Office has also funded training relating to combatting arms trafficking via Treasury/Customs/ATF. Future funding levels will depend largely on how rapidly some of the pilot projects come on line, including bilateral law enforcement activities such as the Border Task Forces, and the scope of the Administration of Justice/Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance program currently being designed by the two governments.

Fiscal Years 1990-1997

From FY 1990 through FY 1997:

• Total budget authority for INL increased 88 percent (from $113 million in FY 1990 to $213 million in FY 1997).

• Following three years of no assistance to Mexico (FY 1993-1995) INL funding in FY 1997 is $6 million or about 30 percent of the FY 1992 level ($20 million).

The FY 1997 budget components for the Mexico program are:

• Eradication (700,000 dollars)

• Interdiction (1.0 million dollars)

• Law enforcement (750,000 dollars)

• Justice sector reform/training (2.5 million dollars)

• Demand reduction (50,000 dollars)

• Program development and support (1.0 million dollars)

Fiscal Year 1998

In the FY 1998 budget request the INL budget totals $230 million, an increase of $17 million (eight percent) over FY 1997 ($213 million). At the FY 1998 level of funding:

• The INL budget will account for a little more than one percent of the National Drug Control Budget request for FY 1998 ($15,917 million).

• INL assistance to Mexico will total $8.0 million or about four percent of the total INL budget in FY 1998 ($230 million). By comparison, the final year prior to the halt in INL assistance to Mexico (FY 1992), the Mexico program accounted for nearly 12 percent of the total INL budget.

Source: Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs

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Department of State
Bureau Of International Narcotics And Law Enforcement Affairs (IN:)

Budget Authority ($ Millions)
Fiscal Years 1990-1998

FY	Total	Total, Mexico
1990	113.0	15.0
1991	150.0	19.3
1992	171.5	20.0
1993	147.8	0.0
1994	100.0	0.0
1995	105.0	0.0
1996	115.0	2.5
1997	213.0	6.0
1998	230.0	8.0

Source: Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs

See Graphs on Department of State:

• Mexico narcotics program funding