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From the 1990's the United States adopted a border enforcement strategy to discourage illegal immigrants from attempting to enter the country. However, tougher enforcement did not prevent migrant crossings. This paper, based on a qualitative methodology that includes in depth interviews with eighty migrant smugglers, examines the causes of corruption of U.S. immigration officials and concludes that corruption is a key element in migrant smuggling because it makes it easier to get the migrants across the borders. The complicity of border and immigration officials with smugglers and employers explains why today's probability of apprehension is lower than half a century ago. Adapted from the source document.

This article, based on a qualitative methodology including interviews to fifteen women from Mexico and Central America, aims to examine comparatively the situation of migrant women prostituted in Nevada in indoor prostitution, through agencies, and without intermediaries. We conclude that women transported by sex smuggling networks cannot leave employers because they are indebted to them. Paradoxically, women prostituted autonomously feel empowered, since this activity allows them to devote more time to the care of their body and earn more money than in other activities. Moreover, while the former are introduced into sexual commerce as minors, the latter enter into prostitution at higher ages.