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This report argues that, for Australia and Asia, the menace of Mexican transnational organized crime is no longer looming on the horizon; it has already arrived. To respond effectively to this threat, the text's author contends Australian policymakers need to recognize 1) the complex nature of the issue due to the reality that there is no homogeneous Mexican cartel or organized crime group; 2) that the nature of the threat posed by Mexican organized crime in Australia and Asia will be different to that found in either the US or Mexico; and 3) that Australia’s current National Organised Crime Response Plan is not agile enough to deal with the problem.