Judge in Dallas denies asylum request from ex-police officer in Mexico | Dallas Morning News: "A Mexican ex-police officer who fled the narcotics violence of Juárez, Mexico, was denied asylum by a federal immigration judge in Dallas.
The case of José Alarcón was heard in late November in a closed hearing in a federal immigration court here.
Alarcón's case is one of an increasing number of asylum requests made in the last year by Mexicans as the death toll grows in Mexico, where the military and federal agents are fighting cartels and corruption within their own ranks.
Alarcón, 27, told The Dallas Morning News last year that he refused to be bought off and that he was in a 2008 gunbattle in the border city across from El Paso as a result." Jan. 7, 2011
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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