"metspitzer" <kilowatt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> MEXICO CITY - With the U.S. Congress debating whether to send hundreds
> of millions of dollars in aid for Mexico's crackdown on drug cartels,
> American officials said Wednesday that three Mexican police chiefs
> have sought asylum north of the border in fear for their lives.
>
> Jayson Ahern, the deputy commissioner for Customs and Border
> Enforcement, told the Associated Press that the officials had sought
> asylum "in the past few months."
>
> Citing privacy issues, Ahern did not identify the police. A senior
> Homeland Security official, speaking on condition of anonymity,
> confirmed the asylum requests to the Houston Chronicle but provided no
> details. "They're basically abandoned by their police officers or
> police departments in many cases," Ahern said in Wa****ngton.
>
> The police chief in Puerto Palomas, a town bordering Columbus, N.M.,
> west of El Paso, requested asylum in March when his entire force quit
> after receiving death threats from drug traffickers, re****ts show.
> Seven men were killed gangland-style in Palomas early Sunday in
> attacks attributed to local smugglers.
>
> Officials at the Mexican Embassy in Wa****ngton had no knowledge of
> other asylum requests, spokesman Ricardo Alday said.
>
> "That doesn't mean it hasn't happened. We just don't know about it
> yet," he said.
>
> Mexico's drug war violence has escalated sharply since President
> Felipe Calderon ordered nearly 30,000 federal police and troops into
> the field against drug traffickers 17 months ago. Most of the federal
> forces are operating in states along the border and down the Pacific
> coast.
>
> The Bush administration has petitioned Congress for a $1.4 billion,
> three-year package to send anti-narcotics aid to Mexico and Central
> America. All but $50 million of the package is earmarked for the
> Calderon government.
So the same administration that gave immunity to Mexican drug smugglers to
testify against our own Border Patrol agents and send them to prison
(Ramos
and Compeon) wants to give taxpayer money to Mexico to fight drug
traffickers? Why can't Mexico pay for their own police? They have vast
oil
reserves and other forms of wealth. What's wrong with this picture?
> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5781179.html
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