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The University of San Diego Trans-Border Institute:
Connecting USD to the Border

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This week in Mexico

The San Diego Union-Tribune

The Mexicanization of American Law Enforcement

City Journal-- Beheadings and amputations. Iraqi-style brutality, bribery, extortion, kidnapping, and murder. More than 7,200 dead—almost double last year’s tally—in shoot-outs between federales and often better-armed drug cartels. This is modern Mexico, whose president, Felipe Calderón, has been struggling since 2006 to wrest his country from the grip of four powerful cartels and their estimated 100,000 foot soldiers.

But chillingly, there are signs that one of the worst features of Mexico’s war on drugs—law enforcement officials on the take from drug lords—is becoming an American problem as well.  (Read More)

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Recent Publication

Global Crossroads

November 3, 2009

This publication and findings, which describe the California-Baja California infrastructure crisis, underscore the need for developing a cross-border infrastructure strategy, and define potential future policy strategies for border infrastructure.  Among the challenges that Lawrence Herzog, Ph.D. highlights in the publication are the strains on existing infrastructure placed by rapid economic growth and demographic change, the economic and environmental costs of border delays, inadequate highway trade infrastructure, poorly developed rail linkages, lost opportunities to other regions with better infrastructure, insufficient port of entry capacity, and the shift to a national security framework at the border.  

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TBI Justice in Mexico Project

Justice in MexicoA research project by the USD Trans-Border Institute (TBI) dedicated to the rule of law and justice reform in Mexico. The TBI Justice in Mexico Project coordinates and disseminates research on three major components of the rule of law: (1) order; (2) accountability and; (3) Equal access to justice.

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