Irv Brandt

Well, it is.

It will be a lot different than what you would conduct here in the United States.

And you would partner up.

You would have a liaison with your Mexican counterparts.

But the...

Agencies like the FBI and the United States Marshal Service and things like that, when we send people to these countries, these are people who are very proficient in Spanish and they're very familiar with the culture, you know.

A lot of them have families on both sides of the borders.

They know how to work an operation, and they know how to conduct an investigation in Mexico.

It's not like a stranger coming from a bar.

I don't know the names of the streets.

You know, things like that's not the case.

They know these cities backwards and forwards and they know the law enforcement in there.

It's not going to be a problem for them to conduct these investigations and follow whatever leads come up.

Well, to go into Mexico to search and to basically what you're saying is to conduct a criminal investigation in a sovereign nation.

you have to seek permission.

And it would go through our legal attaches that we have at our embassies and our consulates.

And Mexican authorities are more than willing to cooperate with U.S.

law enforcement

And we have a very large presence in Mexico.

The FBI has a large presence in Mexico.