Mexican Cops Requesting Political Asylum

[Rhino]

Rep. Tancredo: Mexican Asylum — Sign of a Failed State?

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:55 PM

By: Rep. Tom Tancredo

Mexican law enforcement officials are walking into U.S. ports of entry in increasing numbers to seek political asylum, and the flow may soon become a flood as Mexico's battle with the drug cartels intensifies. Our first instinct is to welcome them, but there is more at stake than humanitarian sentiments.

The problem is that if our immigration laws are stretched to grant asylum to law enforcement personnel on the grounds that their own government cannot protect them, any Mexican threatened by these violent criminal gangs can claim the same right of asylum.

U.S. immigration law does not easily accommodate these law enforcement cases because they are fleeing threats from organized crime — the Mexican drug cartels — not political persecution by their government. If our laws are stretched to accept thousands of refugees from drug cartel violence, it will only exacerbate Mexico's problems.

We can sympathize with the Mexican police chief or prosecutor who lands on a cartel hit list because he will not play ball with them. The Mexican federal government seemingly cannot protect him and his family, so he flees to El Paso or Nogales and seeks asylum. The number of such asylum applications more than doubled in the first six months of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007, but very few have been approved....http://newsmax.com/newsfront/tancredo_mexican_asylum/2008/07/15/113070.html

[DesertFox]

Beginning to look like the only fix is to carpet bomb a 10-mile strip either side of the border, from Texas to California; then plow that strip under with salt; then irradiate it with neutron bombs.

[Penguin]

...as a start.

Then build the full wall, 50 feet high and mine it with Bouncing Betty's every 20 yards.

[Kathy30]

mexico is engaged in a civil war. The drug cartels have decided that the only way mexico can be transformed into a collection of narco fifedoms is to do away with the central government.

If we allow in every person who is fleeing the civil war then there will shortly be no one left to counter the narcoistas and we will have dozens of little narco empires on our southern border. They will then do what mexicans are doing now, come here to extend and expand their territory.

[DesertFox]

Kathy nailed it. Mexico is now fighting the same war Colombia has been fighting for 30 years against the narcoterrorists. Colombia has just about won its other internal war against the communists, but its narcowar is still raging.

[Rhino]

Beginning to look like the only fix is to carpet bomb a 10-mile strip either side of the border, from Texas to California; then plow that strip under with salt; then irradiate it with neutron bombs.I thought that was Chicago??? :question:

[PaulRevere]

Hey, if anyone thinks that ours have it so much better, remember what our own government did to Ramos and Campea.

[Rhino]

Yeah. How dare they enforce the law!

[DesertFox]

Ours have it very much better.

[Etaoin]

I've only been called for Jury Duty twice. Once for a poisoning Murder, and second or an unassigned case. My most desired "service" was to be called for the trial of a drug dealer.

This is a case in which I would have to vote for acquittal,

My Reasons for why I'd cast such a vote.

1. Usage is an addiction...not a criminal action.
2. Use of the drug does not normally evolve into any criminal activity other than the violation of an unenforceable law.
3. Any drug dealer is merely an entrepaneur operating in the market created by a government that has enacted a bad law.
4. The price of drugs would no longer support the criminal element which are responsible for the criminal activity.

[Rhino]

1. You don't decide what is criminal. The law does that. While you are certainly entitled to disagree, that's not what you decide as a juror.
2. Use of the drug is a criminal activity.
3. As a juror, it is not your job to decide what is a bad law.
4. So, it should be illegal to sell homemade explosives, but not to possess them?

[Kathy30]

Many people vote to acquit drug dealers. That's why we have so many on the streets and why they have such contempt for the law.

Contempt for the law is an odd circumstance. Once someone gets it. They apply it to everything.

[Wolfcounsel]

"Colombia has just about won its other internal war against the communists, but its narcowar is still raging." --DesertFox

Let me take a wild guess and say that the pro-drug dumbasses are keeping the scumbags and making the scumbags richer.<!-- / message -->