A very good question indeed

The U.S. Senate voted 89-1 (I don’t know who the 10 non-voting Senators were, nor the lone holdout) to spend 3 billion dollars on border security.

Fine, but they might want to look a little closer at port security :

MEXICO CITY: Chinese and U.S. authorities are investigating whether a breakdown in security at their ports allowed an illegal shipment reportedly carrying more than 19 tons of a chemical intended for methamphetamine cartels to reach Mexico, the Mexican attorney general said Thursday.

The shipment led to what has been touted as the world’s largest seizure of drug money and the arrest of Chinese-Mexican businessman Zhenli Ye Gon, who is accused in the United States and Mexico of supplying pseudoephedrine to Mexican cartels who then used the drug to make methamphetamines.

In March, authorities found more than US$205 million (euro149 million) hidden inside Ye Gon’s Mexico City mansion.

Ye Gon was arrested Monday by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents in a suburban Washington restaurant. He faces charges he conspired to smuggle drugs into the United States and laundered millions of dollars (euros) from illegal drug sales at Las Vegas casinos and elsewhere, the U.S. government said in a criminal complaint Tuesday.

Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora told a news conference Thursday that investigators want to know how the shipment arrived in Mexico with false paperwork after passing through Chinese and U.S. ports.
(AP, via Internatioal Herald Tribune)
Meanwhile, Zenli Ye Gon was finally arrested in the U.S. and the Mexicans have gotten the loot back — a third each going to the Federal Prosecutors, the Courts and the Secretariat of Health for drug abuse programs. The DEA gets will get exactly what they deserve — diddly-squat.

Questions remain on how exactly Ye Gon obtained Mexican citizenship anyway, and how he was transferring so much cash around Mexican banks without paying taxes.