The escalating violence along the border of the United States and Mexico is a growing crisis measured not only in lives lost, but in its debilitating and destructive effect on governance, the rule of law, immigration, and issues of social concern to both countries. Since January 2008 alone, it is estimated that nearly 7,000 lives have been lost in drug-related violence in Mexico. While the bulk of U.S. policy attention on this issue has focused on changing internal factors in Mexico, less attention has been given to external influences from the U.S. helping drive this violence.

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A NYRAG Members Briefing sponsored by Carnegie Corporation of New York, Ford Foundation, and Open Society Institute; Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees; and the Four Freedoms Fund