Irv Brandt

The DEA has a large presence in Mexico.

The United States Marshal Service has a large presence in Mexico.

And all these agencies will work together.

They will pool their resources.

They'll pool their manpower together.

And they all have liaisons with the...

Mexican federal police, but also the police in the jurisdictions that you're going to, you know, into the towns and to the things like that.

And they will help facilitate the federal agents getting in and talking and following up on these leads and doing searches.

Well, the first thing, the places that I would hit first are the places that are closest.

You would start where you would possibly think the easiest border crossing would be.

You know, you define what that is.

Then you concentrate your law enforcement, you know, with the photographs and, you know, the materials that they need and start there and do it very intensely.

And if you get zero results, zero leads, that's when you start expanding it out.

And I would expand it out along the border before going deeper into Mexico.

The first thing that you would want to know is where they crossed at.

Then that would give you a bigger clue as to where they were going, you know, once they're inside of Mexico.

So, I mean, it's very different if you, you know, cross from...

you know, San Diego, for example, into Tijuana, as opposed to you cross from El Paso into Juarez.

I mean, that would change the scope of the investigation dramatically.

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