Jul 14, 2011

¡Ya Basta de Sangre!: More Mexicans fleeing the drug war seek U.S. asylum

More Mexicans fleeing the drug war seek U.S. asylum | Reuters: "... asylum requests from Mexico reached a record 5,551 last year, according to U.S. government figures, more than a third up on 2006 when President Felipe Calderon took office and sent the military to crush the cartels. Just 165 asylum requests were granted in 2010.

Among the wave of panic-stricken asylum seekers are the muckraking journalists who chronicle brutal gang warfare in Ciudad Juarez and Mexico's northern Chihuahua state, the police officers tasked with curbing the violence, and the rights campaigners clamoring for justice."

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