Global Crime Case: Drugs and the U.S.-Mexico Border

摘要

The border between the United States and Mexico is 1,954 miles long and the most heavily transited international border in the world. Mexico is the United States' second-largest trading partner and a party to the North American Free Trade Agreement. Yet, mixed among the legal trade and visitations are smuggled goods and the infiltration of illegal migrants.rnCriminal enterprises are in business to make money. Most often, they do so through the smuggling of contraband. Along the U.S.-Mexico border, the contraband consists primarily of drugs and people. The criminal organizations present today are the products of a multi-decade evolutionary path that began with the Medellin and Cali cartels of Colombia.