Abstract

GONZALEZ REYES, Pablo Jesús. Migración, criminalidad y violencia en la frontera norte de México: Migration, Criminality and Violence in the Mexican North Frontier. Rev. Crim. [online]. 2009, vol.51, n.2, pp.47-60. ISSN 1794-3108.

This article covers the phenomenon of illegal trafficking of immigrants from Mexico to the United States, which together with illicit drug trafficking, has led the us government to establish more severe control and contention measures - mainly in the past decades - by reinforcing border surveillance. In this sense, the following goals were set: to establish links between migration policies geared to reinforcing said border and increased crime activity associated to illegal trafficking of immigrants and other types of illicit activities; to highlight the risks involved in the proliferation of offenses made by criminal groups operating illegal trafficking of immigrants; and to point out the multiple victimization international immigrants go through.

Keywords : illicit drug trafficking; offenses; organized crime; migration; border.

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