Young Mexican police chief seeking asylum in US

[kilopaparomeo]

Might I suggest she take refuge here in SW Michigan...have a nice little apartment I'd rent her.  Don't think my wife would approve, however.



http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20110308/US.Drug.War.Mexico.Young.Police.Chief/

EL PASO, Texas — A young woman who received death threats after recently becoming police chief of a violence-plagued Mexican town is in the U.S and seeking asylum, Mexican and U.S. officials said Tuesday.

Marisol Valles Garcia, 20, made international headlines when she accepted the top law enforcement job in Praxedis G. Guerrero, a township near the Texas border that has been overcome by drug violence. Her predecessor was shot to death in July 2009.

Garcia is now in the U.S. and will be allowed to present her case to an immigration judge, according to a statement from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The town is in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, where ombudsman Gustavo de la Rosa confirmed that Garcia was in the U.S. and said she has initiated a formal asylum petition.

Neither ICE nor De la Rosa would say where Garcia was staying, citing privacy and security concerns.

Drug violence has transformed the township of about 8,500 people from a string of quiet farming communities into a lawless no man's land only about a mile from the Texas border. Two rival gangs — the Juarez and Sinaloa drug cartels — are battling over control of its single highway, a lucrative drug-trafficking route along the Texas border.

Residents have said Garcia had received death threats, and the ombudsman said there may have been at least one attempt to kidnap her. Local officials said they had given her a leave of absence from March 2 through March 7 to travel to the U.S. to tend to personal matters, but she never returned.

Garcia was officially fired Monday for apparently abandoning her post. Police will answer to the mayor until a new chief is appointed, the city government's statement said.

Garcia was still a criminology student when she accepted the job in October to oversee 12 police officers. At the time, she said she wanted them to go door-to-door looking for criminals and teaching values to the families.

[TAB]

Send her home.  Death threats are part of being a police cheif, if she did not know that, they need to fire her for being a dumb ass.

[Rob10ring]

Send her home.  Death threats are part of being a police cheif, if she did not know that, they need to fire her for being a dumb ass.

She was really only a 20 year-old KID, that really didn't get the gravity of what she was taking on. She didn't even carry a gun. I've got a daughter that's only a year younger and she thinks she's tough enough to take on the world too.

They need a Chief, or Sheriff down there that will duputize the whole town, line up the wagons at the end of main street and call out the druglords and their goons. Then the town can perforate them as they see fit. Until the Mexicans stand up for themselves, they're sitting ducks. I know if this were happening in my town, I know a bunch of guys and girls that would show up ready and I'm sure I could count on this group.

[TAB]

Well then its a life lesson.  hopefully she does not lose her life over it.

I'm pretty sure every one in a boarder town knows what happens when you cross the drug lord.  I knew what when on there when I was her age and I'm not even from the same country.

[billt]

What did she think was going to happen? How many of her predecessors were killed before she came along? This was a ploy from the get go.

1.) Show "good faith" to your people, as well as this country by taking a job no one else wants based on you, "doing your civic duty".

2.) Lay low as the death threats come in.

3.) Announce your life is in danger, and you want asylum in the United States, which is exactly where she wanted to go in the first place. Now when she arrives, she'll be legal and a hero instead of what she really is, another illegal invader who will jump on the entitlement program list faster than a flea on a Irish Setter. These people make me sicker by the day. All that is left is for her to wash up on Oprah's couch after she gets here. And you can bet that Gloria Allred will be sitting right next to her.  Bill T.

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[billt]

Until the Mexicans stand up for themselves, they're sitting ducks.

That has precisely been the mexicans problem since the dawn of time. They have NEVER "risen up" and fought for anything. It took 6,000 of the "best" Santa Anna had to beat 186 Texans at the Alamo, and things haven't improved much since. They rat out anyone who has had the balls to take on their corrupt, thieving government. These people have been neutered for decades, and any bravery or will to fight for their own cause has been well bred out of them. And breed they do. That's the one move these people have got down pat.

In mexico you have the upper 3% of the population as the super rich, governing set. Everyone else is living at or well below the poverty level and pissing in the street with nothing. Most are content to live that way. Rather than organize and fix their own country, they run over here because it's easier and they can get things free. Until this worthless mindset they most all posses changes, they will advance no further than the US border, which they will promptly run, jump, or swim across, because we are stupid enough to let them while Hussein, as well as every other sitting President, beats the drum on how we should be the ones to straighten out the mess they themselves have allowed to happen.  Bill T.

[jnevis]

In a different article on it it was stated that she more than likely will not be granted asylum (although with this administration rules are just recomendations). Death threats by non-government entities are not grounds for asylum.  You are supposed to be "repressed" by your government not a roving bunch of thugs.

[billt]

In a different article on it it was stated that she more than likely will not be granted asylum (although with this administration rules are just recomendations). Death threats by non-government entities are not grounds for asylum.  You are supposed to be "repressed" by your government not a roving bunch of thugs.

True. But Hussein and Holder pick and choose from a legal standpoint whatever it is they wish to do at the moment. They ignore anyone black who breaks the law, and is total trash, (black panther voter intimidation case). He has also foolishly stuck up for any black that he thinks was wronged, (white cop vs. black professor "beer summit"). Now he's flip flopping on the whole Guantanamo mess he managed to create for himself during the campaign. If he thinks for a New York second giving this woman a free pass will get him votes, he'll be on it like stink on crap. The laws will always be adjusted to suit his needs, not the way they are meant to be enforced as written.  Bill T.

[tombogan03884]

This is not the first young girl to be appointed Chief of Police in a Mexican border town.
The original idea was the the drug gangs would be less likely to murder a girl.
It hasn't worked, the first one lasted a day and was last seen being dragged out of her house by "unidentified gunmen".