Young Mexican police chief fired after reportedly fleeing to U.S.

http://news.yahoo.com ^ | March 07 | Liz Goodwin

[gov_bean_ counter]

Better fired than fired upon...

[ClearCase_guy]

Mexican drug violence is obviously not state-sanctioned

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[r9etb]

[pnh102]

Hmm... I’d definitely give her amnesty. ;)

[Loud Mime]

Valles said she would focus on administrative tasks and community-building, and would not take on the drug cartels. "

Huh?

[WayneS]

...Mexican drug violence is obviously not state-sanctioned...

The writer offers no evidence to back up this assertion.

[dfwgator]

Don’t blame her one bit.

[forgotten man]

She can apply for a temporary visa to work in agriculture. She can renew the temporary visa and keep working here. After a while she can apply for permanent resident alien status. There are ways for Mexicans to come to the USA legally.

[driftdiver]

So what exactly do you expect a 20 yr old girl to do against the drug cartels?

[Gena Bukin]

Don’t blame her one bit.

The Mexican drug cartels tend to give those in authority two choices: Take the briefcase full of money or take the box containing the heads of your children. Often not a difficult choice to make.

[JoeProBono]

[Moose4]

I’d actually like to see her get asylum, if this story is true. If she had the guts (albeit possibly misguided) to try and handle security in a border town near Ciudad Juarez, she may well have what it takes to succeed here. And at least she’s going through legal channels instead of sneaking across the border in the dead of night like thousands of her countrymen a week.

}:-)4

[Former Proud Canadian]

Re post 7. I picked that up too. I read articles until I come on a statement that either I know is false or is an opinion. That statement is an opinion, as far as I am concerned. Just give us the news, not opinion tarted up as news.

[Russ]

NOT GUILTY!!

[ozzymandus]

She’s cute, but what the hell ever prompted her to take that job, and what kind of idiots allowed her to take it?

[donhunt]

Send Hillary down there to take her place.
She’s supposedly the smartest woman in the world.

[forgotten man]

There are a lot of cute girls in Mexico who would do almost anything to have an American boyfriend or husband. It is the Mexican men who have screwed up Mexico.

[Jonty30]

Exactly how could she take on the drug cartels?

She’d likely have disappeared and (very likely) be pimped out like that other female police chief.

[Jonty30]

If the drug cartels targetted her, she was probably being effective and, therefore, a threat to them.