Young Mexican police chief seeks US asylum

Young Mexican police chief seeks US asylum :

Isn't this a big surprise?

A (very!) young Mexican woman volunteered to take over the office of Chief of Police in her home town, and got the job because every rational person in the country was too frightened by the likelihood of being slaughtered ... as her predecessor was.

That was six months ago.

Six DAYS ago, she took a "temporary leave of absence" and, unannounced, showed up in the United States of America, where " ... she has initiated a formal asylum petition" on the basis of reported death threats and, possibly an attempted kidnapping in the town which she had eagerly sworn to protect the citizens.

Apparently, she has since discovered that she can't even protect herself. Big surprise.

"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, who was 20 when she was hired last October, made international headlines when she accepted the top law enforcement job in Praxedis G. Guerrero, a township near the Texas border overrun 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."

So what's with this? I mean, she volunteered for a LEO command position in a notoriously rough town. Didn't she have a ... a ... I'm trying to think of the word, what is it?

Didn't she have a PLAN?

Did she think she could take a job where her predecessor had been murdered, in a lawless place, without having a viable plan (one which she was equipped to implement it successfully, given her well-demonstrated attributes and strength and will)?

Or perhaps her plan wasn't for the betterment of her community, but for the betterment of herself?


I'm guessing that she will be granted asylum (U.S. immigration officials are notoriously prone to accept any petition where the would-be immigrant can make a case for persecution if asylum is not granted), and I'm wondering if this was not her goal -- her "plan" -- all the time.

Color me biased. Go ahead, I don't mind. Perhaps it takes a Bad Person to suspect the motivation of a woman ... no, a girl ... who deliberately puts herself in such an obviously untenable position.

Wow! What a gutsy move. Tens of thousands of Mexicans illegally cross the border every year, from Mexico to the United States, for the purpose of "seeking a higher standard of living" and/or "trying to improve the pitiful plight of their families".

(And a significant number of Mexicans ALSO apply for legal immigration ... and are often turned down because there are so many "illegal aliens" from Mexico are already flooding the "unskilled labor" pools of this country.)

So now this girl has found an entirely new scam, for the same purpose, and you just know that she is going to get away with it.

To tell the truth, I really don't blame her. In fact, in some ways I admire her inventiveness. It's kind of the way that I admire the characters played by Paul Newman and Robert Redford in "The Sting". Sure, they're all crooked as a dog's hind leg, but they're such charming rogues and so terribly inventive.

While on the one hand I would really like to see this charming, inventive, lovely young woman succeed ... on the other hand, I very much would like to see her application turned down.

The basis for the rejection would be something along the lines of "you made your bed, now you may sleep in it". Well, badly stated; that's true. And you know that this administration would NEVER be anything but compassionate.

That is to say: as long as she makes a sufficient case to be categorized as "The Underdog", she may reasonably expect that her application for asylum will be approved, and she will never want for anything for the rest of her natural life. Never mind that she brings no marketable skills, and will probably end up on the public dole. (Unless Hollywood, that hotbed of liberalism, chooses to make a film of her otherwise humdrum existence ... although it would make a MUCH better film if they started it out from the point where her application was denied, and followed her subsequent attempts to actually fulfill the expectations which she had engendered in her constituents when she applied for the job in the first place. Kind of like Walking Tall, without the stick.)

Ultimately, we can only say that we deplore the situation which is developing (or has fully developed, and can only get worse?) in Mexico.

We don't like drugs. We disapprove of corruption. and we absolutely cannot understand that third-world-country government mindset which allows drug-gangs to terrorize their innocent civilians, but which at the same time refuses to allow those same innocent civilians to arm themselves.

After all, it's not like they're getting any protection from their government ... which, in case I haven't mentioned it before, is notoriously CORRUPT! Both their police, and their army; and their president is well spoken, but flagrantly and demonstrably incompetent as is his administration.

(Makes you glad to be an American, doesn't it?
Oh, wait a minute.
Never mind.)

Why is that, do you think? Is it because the national government thinks that if their citizens were armed, there would be more murders, and torture, and decapitations and raids and gunfights in the streets and 72 bodies found in a demolished building in the countryside?

Doe the Mexican government think that allowing their honest citizens to arm themselves would result in a massacre which would undermine the tourism industry?

I'm just a simple geek, I really don't understand any of this. I don't have answers; I only have a lot of questions.

Don't you?