UN Official Says Migrant Trafficking More Profitable than Drug Trafficking Carolina Rivera - Milenio
go to original May 10, 2013

Antonio Mazzitelli, of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Diego Macias/CNNMéxico)

Since it has not yet been classified as a crime, the smuggling of migrants has increased in the last years. The lack of classification of this practice as a crime has resulted in its being a more profitable business than drug trafficking, according to Antonio Mazzitelli, a representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

In an interview with Milenio, he stated that this phenomena happens because migrant smuggling has low economic risk compared to drug trafficking, in which criminal groups have considerable risk of economic loss.

"There is no economic threat and in many cases there is also low risk of being prosecuted by justice, since this practice has not been classified as a crime. The reason for this is that migrants cannot make complaints before the justice system because of their extra-legal condition," he said.

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Translated by Mariana Silva

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