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> "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.
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> 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?
>
In reality, if Mexico isn't fixed, the US will be absorbing huge numbers
of
expatriate Mexicans fleeing the narcoterrorist state that Mexico has
become.
If Mexico were a better place, the Mexican people would have less reason
to
leave and the US would have a nicer neighbor. Mexico used to be a nice
place
to visit twenty to thirty years ago.
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