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Cooperation with Mexico: Key to Border Security and Stopping Transnational Crime
The Heritage Foundation (The Foundry Blog), 08/28/2013 According to recent reports, the U.S. is in talks with Mexico to strengthen security along Mexico’s southern border. The effort reportedly...
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Mexico and Guatemala free victims of human trafficking
BBC News Latin American and the Caribbean, 4/24/14 Police in Guatemala said they raided two houses near the Mexican border and found at least 60 people who wanted to travel to the United States...
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Mexico rescues more than 100 kidnapped migrants
05/07/05 BBC News Police in Mexico have rescued more than 100 migrants kidnapped by a human trafficking gang near the capital. Reports said some of the migrants had been held hostage for five weeks in...
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Mexico Rescues 6,733 Children from Human Traffickers
6/23/15 Latin American Herald Tribune Mexican immigration officers rescued 6,733 minor illegal immigrants from human traffickers who had promised to deliver them to their families in the United States....
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Human trafficking among Mexico’s lucrative crimes
08/07/16 El Paso Times JUAREZ — After drug trafficking, human trafficking in México is the illicit activity that generates the most money for criminal groups, according to a high-ranked official of...
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Mexico Plans to Tame ‘The Beast,’ Cut Migrant Route North
09/03/16 InSight Crime The Mexican government has announced a new strategy to stop migrants from hopping the infamous north-bound freight train known as “The Beast,” a plan that would cut off a route...
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WHEN: April 5, 2018, 9-11am WHERE: 6th Floor, Wilson Center Click to RSVP For generations, the persona of the coyote, or smuggler, as facilitator of irregular migration has been a central figure in...
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Asylum Seeker Denied US Entry By Trump Administration Kidnapped Five Hours...
09/16/19 – Newsweek By Benjamin Fearnow An asylum seeker said he and his child were kidnapped and held for ransom by Mexican cartel members just hours after asylum policies enacted by the Trump...
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Mexico finds migrant smuggling ring that earned $40,000/week
09/28/19 – AP News Mexican officials say they have broken up a human smuggling ring that earned around $40,000 a week helping migrants mostly from South America and India reach the United States. The...
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Mexico mulls human trafficking overhaul that may protect sex workers
11/15/19 – Reuters By Christine Murray Sex workers could benefit from plans to reform Mexico’s much-criticized human trafficking law, outlined in an interior ministry document obtained by the Thomson...
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