America must get tough against the Mexican drug cartels, former US Attorney General, William Barr, declared earlier this month. Likening them to Isis, he backed a joint resolution from two Republican senators, giving the US president authority to deploy the military against the cartels in Mexico. Failure to do so would, he warned, allow the cartels to continue flooding the US with their ‘deadly drugs on an industrial scale’. America’s anti-drug strategy was ineffective because, he said, ‘it leaves the drug supply chain untouched…real progress requires aggressively attacking the drug supply at its source. The head of the snake is in Mexico.’
Europe must apply a similar approach if it’s to solve the migrant crisis. The deal agreed last week between Britain and France to tackle the small boats crisis in the Channel won’t on its own succeed because it doesn’t attack the crisis at its source.
Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron are aware of this.
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