Migrants in Transit Through the Southern Border of Mexico, Victims of Trafficking in Persons: a Pending Issue

Abstract

Trafficking in persons is considered the new slavery of the 21st century, at a national level the Mexican State has twice the need to work on the matter, firstly for having ratified international treaties and secondly for being a country of origin, transit and reception of migrants, so that according to the first article of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, the State must prevent, investigate, punish and repair violations of human rights, and the authorities within the scope of their competences, have the obligation to promote, respect, protect and guarantee them. The present article is constructed in the first instance doctrinally, to give way a brief explanation of the international and national legal framework, and to continue with the identification of the phenomenon that appears in the southern border in two ways, through those expressed by authorities, and in contrast, what has been established by non-governmental organizations and journalistic notes, this will allow to identify human trafficking in the southern border qualitatively and quantitatively, and analyze pending matters in the national agenda.