Mexican drug cartels exploit asylum system by claiming ‘credible fear’

The Washington Times ^ | November 21, 2013 | Stephen Dinan

[moonshinner_09]

The House Judiciary Committee has begun looking at reports that Mexican drug cartel members are abusing the U.S. asylum system to bypass regular immigration checks and get into the country, where some are setting up smuggling operations and others engage in the same violent feuds that caused them to flee Mexico in the first place. In one instance, a woman made a claim of asylum and three months later was apprehended at a Border Patrol checkpoint with more than $1 million in cocaine, according to a memo obtained by the committee that says criminal gangs are exploiting holes in the asylum system.

The memo, viewed by The Washington Times, also details cartel hit-squad members who won access to the U.S. after claiming they feared violence after they “fell out of grace” with their employers. In another case listed in the memo, two families involved in drug trafficking came to the U.S. claiming “credible fear” of persecution, then began targeting each other once they were here. “It’s outrageous that members of Mexican drug cartels and others involved in illicit activity are so easily able to exploit our asylum laws and live in the U.S. virtually undetected,” said Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican. “Our asylum laws are in place to help individuals who are facing truly serious persecution in their country,” he said. “However, dangerous criminals are gaming the system by claiming they have a ‘credible fear’ of persecution when often they’ve been the perpetrators of violence themselves.” Homeland Security officials say they screen everyone who makes a credible fear claim and try to weed out those who don’t meet the standards, and try to detain those who do but also could be dangers to the community.

[moonshinner_09]

The Obama administration has taken an expansive view of the public benefit section, arguing that unless there is a demonstrable flight risk or apparent danger to the community, those seeking asylum should be released rather than held.

Obama is letting in all the drug cartels.They all know to how work the system and what to say.This country is a ticking time bomb waiting to go off.It's only a matter of when and where.

[Junk Silver]

That ticking time-bomb is already going off in Chicago. Many of the shootings in the nations gun-control capital are the result of turf wars as Mexican drug gangs set up shop. Since there effectively is no border the Mexican cartels have decided to stop sharing profits with middle-men and just run drug-distribution top to bottom.

Of course once these Mexican gangsters get amnesty I’m sure they will all pay taxes on their drug profits.

[WesternPacific]

We have become a country of fools.

[Vendome]

Say El Lo to my lit til friend...

[FlingWingFlyer]

You stole the words right out of my mouth. GMTA!