Stoa Policy Debate: Mexico (NEG)

The case to decrease arms sales to Mexico is, on its face, quite strong. There aren’t very many reasons not to pass the plan, which is why most of this brief focuses on mitigating arguments. First, the problem isn’t nearly as significant as the affirmative would have you believe. The United States doesn’t sell that much to Mexico in weapons, and most of Mexico’s arms aren’t even from America at all. The most developed argument, however, is solvency. There are multiple strong reasons that decreasing our weapons sales wouldn’t have much of an effect on the supposed problem in Mexico; rather, we’d simply lose the benefits that we currently gain from our arms exports.