Immigration Reality and Whack-a-mole: Anti-deport effort would shield immigrants from Mexico violence

The politics of  the "illegal" immigration issue and the drug war become more directly linked

Anti-deport effort would shield immigrants from Mexico violence | Immigration | Houston Chronicle: "With more than 30,000 dead in the last four years from drug violence in Mexico, some immigrant advocates are starting to lobby the U.S. government to grant millions of illegal immigrants from Mexico 'Temporary Protected Status,' a kind of temporary reprieve from deportation generally reserved for countries ravaged by natural disasters or destabilized by war." Dec. 5, 2010