WASHINGTON, April 15 (UPI) -- Smugglers supplying guns to Mexican drug cartels can evade detection for years because arms dealers are lightly regulated in U.S. border states, officials say. As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security appoints a "border czar" to protect the United States from escalating drug cartel violence, U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents are struggling to keep up with the flow of weapons to Mexico from states such as Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
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