US Asylum Requests From Mexico Triple, But Chances Aren't Good Dianne Solis and Alfredo Corchado - The Dallas Morning News
go to original April 29, 2013

Bety and her three children fled violence in cartel-controlled Mexico and also domestic violence within her home from her husband, a member of the Zetas. (Mona Reeder/The Dallas Morning News)

Bety fled into Dallas with her three children as though Satan chased her.

The 28-year-old from Mexico says her husband is a member of the brutal binational criminal organization known as the Zetas. Her 8-year-old son witnessed his father in a balacera, a firefight, at a soccer field, and the child says he wants to kill people, too. Her 10-year-old daughter says her mother also should kill: Aim a gun at her father, she says.

Peace will be the reward, her daughter reasons.

Bety, who asked for anonymity, is one of thousands of Mexicans displaced by Mexico’s drug-related violence. Enough Mexicans are now fleeing that they’ve become the second-largest nationality, after the Chinese, to seek U.S. asylum, according to the United Nations. Over a five-year period, their numbers have tripled in asylum petitions before the courts and federal immigration officials. Overall numbers of apprehensions of Mexicans unlawfully entering the country are at new lows.

Far lower are the chances of Mexicans succeeding in an asylum petition.

Read the rest at The Dallas Morning News

We invite you to add your charity or supporting organizations' news stories and coming events to PVAngels so we can share them with the world. Do it now!