fulano
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Three Mexican police chiefs have requested political asylum in the U.S.
This is really an interesting conundrum for the US. If it grants political asylum to Mexican police chiefs, it is tantamount to a slap in the face of
President Felipe Calderon.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ivNbIwMtQTgwPcKIGQUdhnjE1...
"WASHINGTON (AP) — Three Mexican police chiefs have requested political asylum in the U.S. as violence escalates in the Mexican drug wars and spills
across the U.S. border, a top Homeland Security official told The Associated Press.
In the past few months, the police officials have shown up at the U.S. border, fearing for their lives, according to Jayson Ahern, the deputy
commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.
"They're basically abandoned by their police officers or police departments in many cases," Ahern told AP.
Ahern said the Mexican officials — whom he didn't name — are being interviewed and their cases are under review for possible asylum."
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Bruce R Leech
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that is very Ironic
how could they not grant it?
[Edited on 5-14-2008 by Bruce R Leech]
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Eugenio
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The Police Chiefs should have been directed to the Baja Nomad website. Then they would feel more secure knowing that violence in Mexico is no worse
than the US.
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The Gull
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They wouldn't last two days in Pacoima or Moreno Valley. Let them in.
�I won\'t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.� William F. Buckley, Jr.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by fulano
— Three Mexican police chiefs have requested political asylum in the U.S. |
Asylum to be protected from whom, the cartels or the government? Could it be that, when the heat is on, the US will protect them from being exposed
as complicit in the insurgency? When Calderón is closing in, the US will give them protection?
For some reason, this wouldn't come as a great shock to me.
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oldlady
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It's a bit cheeky after the Blackberry incident.
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