InSight Crime: "With the U.S. deportations at a record high, the Mexican government is increasingly concerned that deportees with criminal records are contributing to border violence.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon caused somewhat of a media stir with some of his recent comments on U.S. immigration policy.... Calderon reserved his strongest criticism... for the U.S. governments’ approach to deportation. According to him, the practice of bussing deportees over the border and releasing them fuels the violence in the north of the country, as some individuals with criminal records turn to a life of crime in the border towns where they are released.
... these official concerns are not unfounded, as the phenomenon of deported criminals becoming involved in borderland criminal networks has been documented in the past." read more
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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