Mexico's "Narco-Refugees": The Looming Challenge for U.S. National Security -- Dr. Paul Rexton Kan., Strategic Studies InstituteSince 2006, when Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug cartels, there has been a rise in the number of Mexican nationals seeking political asylum in the United States to escape the ongoing drug cartel violence in their home country. Political asylum cases in general are claimed by those who are targeted for their political beliefs or ethnicity in countries that are repressive or are failing. Mexico is neither. Nonetheless, if the health of the Mexican state declines because criminal violence continues, increases, or spreads, U.S. communities will feel an even greater burden on their systems of public safety and public health from "narco-refugees." Given the ever increasing cruelty of the cartels, the question is whether and how the U.S. Government should begin to prepare for what could be a new wave of migrants coming from Mexico.
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My Comment: In the late 1980s and early 1990s I enjoyed taking a week off every year and going to Mexico for some R&R. No more now. I stopped going over a decade ago .... Mexico has changed and it is not what it was a decade earlier. For those who must live in that cesspool today .... I know how they feel. Who wants to live in a crime ridden society where corruption and violence is the norm and not the exception. Narco-refugees .... an appropriate term for what is now a horrible ongoing disaster in what was once a tourist friendly and peaceful Mexico.