Counter-Drug & Human Trafficking
In Cambodia, programs to support people forced to work in cyberscam compounds have been halted. Cambodia is one of the largest havens of cyberscam operations.
The New York Times, 02/21/2025
In Brazil, a program aimed at tackling the commercial sexual exploitation of children was ordered to stop.
The Guardian, 01/30/2025
The foreign aid freeze “has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels.” Despite waivers to resume funding for some security programs, tens of millions of dollars budgeted for international narcotics and law enforcement work in Mexico remains frozen.
Reuters, 02/24/2025
The aid freeze has stopped U.S.-funded anti-narcotics programs in Mexico that have been working to curb the flow of the synthetic opioid into the United States.
Reuters, 02/13/2025
$1.45 billion in funding for “disrupting and reducing illicit drug markets and transnational crime and combating illicit financing to reduce transnational crime” has been frozen.
Just Security, 01/28/2025