impunity

Thousands of companies have exploited its porousness by plucking workers from the ranks of unauthorized migrants, sometimes with impunity.

Olga Romanova, the head of prisoner rights NGO Russia Behind Bars, says a sense of impunity is driving up crime rates.

“It’s important to send a message that you can’t commit these crimes with impunity, that there are consequences to them,” district judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said.

The Supreme Court gave Trump the right to take any “official” action with impunity.

Today, much of Mexico is contested by warring criminal groups that operate with near impunity and are often aligned with political leaders.