Abstract
The present contribution analyses the relationship between poverty and economic migration, which has generally been interpreted as a crime factor in the receiving countries. In particular, it studies the vicissitude of the migration of undocumented Mexicans to the United States of America, their marginalization, their exclusion. Mainly through the cognitive resources of the theory of social systems, it is intended to show how politics and law -American- build the criminal and in turn produce a (institutionalized) vulnerability for the migrant. More specifically, it analyzes how, based on the principle of "security", the law and modern politics have produced extreme violence with respect to otherness, that is, with respect to the economic and colored migrant, The United States has been persecuted and repressed. In any case, it reveals the way in which modernity operates, in its political-legal dimension, which produces the "inclusion" (universal) of all subjects through freedom and security and the simultaneous exclusion, since what is really freedom and security (its spaces, its limits and contents) is determined within the law and the politics of modern States.
