AUSTIN — Mexico is attempting to combat organized crime through judicial system reforms while working with the U.S. to try to curb a security crisis on the border, a Mexican deputy attorney general said Wednesday.

Mexico's leaders are looking to establish public, oral trials and new roles for judges along with protection of crime victims, Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, deputy federal attorney general for international affairs, told a border security conference in Austin.

"These are much-needed tools to combat organized crime, and this is what we are debating in Mexico," he said in Spanish, using an English interpreter. "The goal is to go after the financing of this organized crime."

He told of one suspected criminal who spent $190 million in Las Vegas, including $14 million in one night.

"This is the enemy that Mexico is confronting with all of its resources," Vasconcelos said. The country is spending $3.9 billion a year to fight organized crime, he said.

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