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Bruce Zagaris and Julia Padierna Peralta, Mexico-United States  extradition and alternatives: From fugitive slaves to drug traffickers --  150 years and beyond the Rio Grande's winding courses, 12 American University Journal of International Law & Policy 519 (1997). 

Authoritative overview of the extradition issue for Mexican and U.S. drug traffickers; includes a handy diagram for making an extradition request to the Mexican government.

Bruce Zagaris and Jessica Resnick, The Mexico-U.S. Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Treaty: Another step toward the harmonization of international law enforcement, 14 Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law 1 (1997). 

Puts MLAT between Mexico and U.S. in its legal and historical context; provides suggestions to strengthen legal enforcement cooperation.

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Donna Wares, A broader Border PAtrol? Federal prosecutors want agents at immigration checkpoints to look for drugs, too, 11 California Lawyer 24 (January 1991).

A look back at the Taylor test case for border patrol agents as drug cops.

J. Patrick LaRue, The "ill-icit" effects of NAFTA: Increased drug trafficking into the United States through the southwest border, 9 Currents: International Trade Law Journal 38 (Summer 2000).

Argues that with NAFTA’s eased trade restrictions drug trafficking has increased and flourished.

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Argiro Kosmetatos, U.S.-Mexican extradition policy: Were the predictions right about Alvarez?, 22 Fordham International Law Journal 1064 (March  1999). 

Overview of law and policy regarding state-sponsored abductions of foreign criminals, including drug traffickers.

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Michael D. Hoffer, A fistful of dollars: "Operation Casablanca" and the impact of extraterritorial enforcement of the United States money laundering law, 28 Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 293 (2000). 

Excellent overview of MLAT cooperative measures between Mexico and the U.S.

Rishi Hingoraney, International extradition of Mexican narcotics traffickers: Prospects and pitfalls for the new millennium, 30 Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 331 (Winter 2002). 

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Melanie M. Laflin, Kidnapped terrorists: Bringing international criminals to justice through irregular rendition and other quasi-legal options, 26 Journal of Legislation 315 (2000).

Good international law perspective on capture and prosecution of drug traffickers.

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Peter S. McCarthy, United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez: Extending the Ker-Frisbie doctrine to meet the modern challenges posed by the international drug trade, 27 New England Law Review 1067 (Summer 1993). 

Analysis of cooperative efforts to apprehend drug traffickers.

Michael C. Taylor, Why no rule of law in Mexico? Explaining the weakness of Mexico's judicial branch, 27 New Mexico Law Review 141 (1997). 

Interesting history and analysis of Mexico’s judicial system and how it operates.

Kal Raustiala, Law, liberalization & international narcotics trafficking, 32 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 89 (Fall 1999). 

Outstanding overview of international law of drug control.

Zachary Marguilis-Ohnuma, The unavoidable correlative: Extraterritorial power and the United States constitution, 32 New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 147 (1999). 

Nice treatment of the problems of U.S. law enforcement attempts in foreign jurisdictions.

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Alan D. Bersin, Threshold order: Bilateral law enforcement and regional public safety on the U.S./Mexico border, 35 San Diego Law Review 715 (Summer  1998). 

Excellent treatment by former U.S. Attorney for Southern California region on developments in transborder cooperation, including the joint DEA/FBA/Customs "Southwest Border Initiative" to combat drug trafficking.

Maureen T. Walsh and Bruce Zagaris, The United States-Mexico treaty on the execution of penal sanctions: The case for reevaluating the treaty and its policies in view of the NAFTA and other developments, 2 Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas 385 (Fall 1995).

Includes "Mexican Perspective" in Part III (Mexican legislative and procedural framework for prisoner transfer and border security).

Bruce Zagaris, Addendum: Revenge of the tequila; crime gathers momentum in U.S.-Mexico relations, 3 Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas 6470 (Spring 1996). 

Discusses the MLAT (Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty) for U.S.-Mexico bilateral cooperation in criminal matters.

Alan D. Bersin, Symposium: Surveying law and border: El tercer pais: Reinventing the U.S./Mexico border, 48 Stanford Law Review 1413 (May 1996).

Former U.S. Attorney for Southern California region’s insights into the political and legal frustrations to combat border drug flow.

Donna Canina Doyle, Case note, Criminal law: It's touch and go at the border (reasonable suspicion standard for border searches for drugs), 11 Stetson Law Review 551 (Spring 1982).

Concentrates on 5^th Circuit case law and Florida drug smuggling, but the legal analysis applies to all federal border search and seizure cases.

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William R. Slomanson, Cross-border urban integration in the 21st century: The San Diego-Tijuana model -- a webliography, 23 Thomas Jefferson Law Review 1 (Fall 2000).

Outstanding collection of Internet resources for the Mexican law researcher! [See Sec. IV Internet.]

Judith B. Ittig, The rites of passage: Border searches and the Fourth Amendment, 40 Tennessee Law Review 329 (Spring 1973). 

Early work on the legal exceptions to the 4^th Amendment regarding border searches to combat drug traffic.

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Roberto P. Aponte Toro, Sanity in international relations: An experience in therapeutic jurisprudence, 30 University of Miami Inter-American Law Review 659 (Winter/Spring 1999).  

Examines U.S. drug trade strategy in terms of how the law can provide psychological and physical assistance to those affected by it; Part II deals with Mexico.

Joshua S. Spector, Extraditing Mexican nationals in the fight against international narcotics crimes, 31 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, 1007 (Summer 1998).

Good overview of the history of the U.S.-Baja California drug traffic, and the legal efforts to fight it through extradition treaties.

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Mexican / Spanish Language Journals

[Taken from the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals under the subject heading DRUGS: CRIMES & OFFENSES and NARCOTICS; countries: MEXICO and USA.]

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A. Bunster, El regimen de la droga en Mexico: Una vision panoramica, 26 Boletin Mexicano de Derecho Comparado 15-43 (1993).  

M. Kaplan, Trafico de drogas en America Latinal emergencia, contexto internacional y dinamica interna, 26 Boletin Mexicano de Derecho Comparado 115-154 (1993). 

S. Garcia Ramirez, El tema de los estupefacientes y psicotropicos en la relacion bilateral Mexico-Estados Unidos, Derecho Internacional en America, pp. 229-246. [1999 cumulative index]. 

O. Islas de Gonzalez Mariscal, Mexico ante el narcotrafico y law corrupcio: Derecho penal nacional y derecho internacional, Derecho Internacional en America, pp. 247-252. [1999 cumulative index].  

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