Mexico and the United States announced on Saturday the launch of a new bilateral initiative aimed at disrupting the southward flow of illicit weapons across the Mexico-U.S. border. Mexican and U.S. officials thrashed out the details of the joint project — called “Mission Firewall: United Against Firearms Trafficking Initiative” — at the inaugural meeting of the Mexico-U.S. Security Implementation Group, held last Friday in McAllen, Texas. The establishment of the binational security group was announced earlier this month during U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Mexico. Mexico’s Foreign Ministry (SRE) said in a statement that the “main goals” of Mission Firewall include:Increasing border operations to prevent weapons from entering Mexico. The SRE said that the U.S. government reported on the progress that has already been made to stop arms trafficking to Mexico.